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4 «© fuitable to the ufe of the parts which I am 
: to explain; I believe it will be much bet- 
ter underftood, than the old one, which 
“ being ftuffed with improper and equivocal 
«© words, more apt to perplex than illuftrate 
“the matter, precipitate into error thofe, 
whofe clouded’ imagination has no right 
~ notion of the functions of thefe parts. The 
< flowers, ftridly fpeaking, are nothing elfe 
«© but the organs which conftitute the differ- 
‘ent fexes of plants, &c.” I thall notice 
only two or three things concerning this dif- 
courfe.. 1mo, That according to it, the a 
pices of barren flowers fhed their duft all at 
once, by a kind ‘of explofion: but fertile 
flowers, flowly and by degrees, and common- 
4 ly before they open, or expand their covers; 
but he gives only the parietaria for an in- 
g ftance. 
| 2do, Tuar he has demonftrated that the 
: duft of the apices cannot enter the feeds; be- 
 canfe the ftylus is. not always hollow, but of- 
_ ten folid: and although it were hollow or tu- 
- convey the duft inthe feeds, without pe- 
_ netrating their proper covers or fhells. Be- 
od 
duft 
