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« nimadverfum : quafi halitus quidam, ex 
‘¢ mare efflans, debilem faeminae calorem ex- 
ex pleat ad fructificandum.” 
S.8-CsRas) EM 
7. But of late it has been maintained by 
not a few, that there is as real a diverfity of 
fexes in every f{pecies of plants, as in every 
fpecies of animals; and, firft of all by the 
celebrated naturalift Dr N. Grew, to whom 
therefore the honour of the ‘invention is 
of tight due. For this great man, in his 
anatomy of flowers, read before the Royal 
Society. November 9. 1676, after noticing 
the fecondary ufes of the duft of the apices, 
which he calls g/obulers or {mall particles with- 
in the zhece of the attire ; he adds, ‘‘ But the 
| q “* primary and chief ufe is fuch as has refpect 
to the plant itfelf, and fo appears to be ve- 
“ry great and neceflary ; becaufe even thofe 
“plants which have no flower or foliature, 
“are yet fome way or other attired; fo 
that it feems to perform its fervice to the 
_ “feed, as the foliature to the fruit. In dif- 
__* courfe hereof with our learned Savilian pro- 
_ * feffor, Sir Thomas Millington, he told me, 
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