- “PHYSICAL ano LITERARY. 215 
(3), but afterwards as proven by many argu- 
ments, which are collected in the preface to 
his /ylloge ftirpium Europearum extra Britan- 
Nias nafcentium, printed at London 1694, in 
~ 8vo: whether thefe arguments fufficiently 
prove the do¢trine will be confidered below. 
10. In 1695, Rudolphus Facobus Camera- 
rius, profeffor of botany and medicine at Tu- 
bingen, publifhed there an epiflola de fexu plan- 
tarum, in 12mo (¢): this I have not feen, but,on- 
ly an abftract of it inthe appendix.to Mifcel. 
nat. cur. Dec. 3. an. 3. for 1695, and 1696, 
by M. B. Valentini. Here the generation of 
plants to be analogous to that of animals, he 
endeavours to fhew in eight particulars; the 
Jatt of which he calls the palmarium and pon- 
derofifimum argumentum: and it isthis, ‘ Cer- 
. tum eft,” fays he, ‘‘ad animalium generatio- 
nem copulam utriufque fexus exigi: quae 
in plantis adeo quoque neceflaria eft, ut fi 
“vel maris apices, vel faeminarum ftyli, vel 
_ “ utraque deficiant, nulla proles fequi pofiit ; 
_ © utin frumento turcico, cui juba praemature 
A “& refecatur, et mercuriali mare, a faemina fe- 
parata, conftat.” But then ‘he propofes 
oe three 
PG) via. R. Hat. p. 28. 
(t) Reprinted Francofurti, 1701, in 4to Lin. bib. bot, 173- 
