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hi, 
oe is a congeries, of feminal plants; one of 
_ « which muft be conveyed into every ovum 
_ * or feed; before it can become prolific.” He 
-has the honour, I believe, of being the in- 
‘ieliiess of this hypothefis; but is fo far from 
making it probable, that the ftructure and po- 
fition of the parts of fome of the flowers he 
_ inftances, which are all the arguments ad- 
‘ vanced by him for it, fufficiently confute it ; 
e. g. corona impertalis. For allowing for 
- once, which however cannot be allowed, that 
the /ty/us is always hollow, and that rain 
~ might wath the duft, or wind thake it down 
this cavity, into the heart of the feed in erect 
flowers ; what muft become of pendulous 
5 flowers, fuch as the crown imperial? here the 
4 farina muft be wafhed or fhaken upwards. 
12. As for Waldschmidii differtatio de sexu 
pl lantarum, Kiliae 1705, 4t0, and Gakenholzii 
differtatio de vegetabilium indole cognofcenda, 
learned Hez/ferus, in his pracfatio in cpiftolam 
| Burckhardi, Helmftadii 1750, in 8v0; I know 
nothing about them: but I have no reafon 
to think, that they have been more fuccefsful 
: 1 demonftrating the fexes of plants than. Ca- 
“merarius, * qui, omnium planiffime, fexum 
Ee ‘* plantarum 
