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of the fun, at leaft as far as appears to us. (6) 
Hence 
THE exquifite ftructure of flowers, e- 
fpecially of the moft minute, and fcarcely vi- 
fible duft of the apices, commonly the fport 
of the winds, has engaged the attention of 
the learned, both of this and the preceeding 
age: and yet, no body has been able to. de- 
termine, with any certainty, whether it is 
abfolutely neceflary to the fecundity of the 
feeds, or excrementitious only; which is the 
fubje&t of the following inquiry. | 
ANIMALS and vegetables refemble one 
another in fo many things, that not only fome ~ 
of the antients, but even of the moderns al- 
fo, feem to be at a lofs how to diftinguifh 
them, or fix the limits of each of thefe king- 
doms (c); yea, and to reckon analogy a fuf- 
ficient proof, that fuch properties as are ge- 
nerally obfervable in the one, do belong to 
the other alfo. Thus Empedocles and Anaxa- 
goras feem to have reafoned, when theymain- 
tained, that both fexes were conjoined in 
plants; that they were animated, yea and fen- 
tient 
(3) Vid. Boyte’s works, fol. cdit. vol. 1. p. 428. & 
vol. iv. p. §23. 
(c) Vid. TyRoc1n bot. p. 3. 
