* PHYSICAL Anp LITERARY. 225 
_  detectum, defcriptum, et pro infallibili af- 
-*“ fumptum : nec ullum, apertis oculis confi- 
 « derantem cujufcunque plantae flores, latere 
© poteft ; quod demonftratum in fponfalibus 
«« plantarum, Upfaliae 1746, in ato (c).” And 
elfewhere (d) “‘ Generationem vegetabilium 
« fieri, mediante pollinis antherarum illapfu 
« fapra ftigmata nuda, quo rumpitur pollen, 
« efflatque auram feminalem, quae abforbetur 
2 « ab humore ftigmatis ; quod confirmat ocu- 
4 s* lus, proportio, locus, tempus, pluviae, pal- 
 « micolae, flores, nutantes, fubmerfi, fynge- 
«¢ nefia; immo omnium florum genuina con- 
_ §€ fideratio.” 
a “Yet I cannot help thinking this doctrine 
not capable of demonftration, far lefs that 
the genuina confideratio of any flower can 
make it probable : Camerarius himfelf doubt- 
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4 w 
ed of it; Tournefort difbelieved it ; and Pou- 
La tedera (c) ufes many arguments to refute it. 
Ps Tt remains therefore only, that the argu- 
re ments for and againft the fexes of plants, as 
_underftood by the moderns, efpecially the de- 
= Ff fervedly 
| *  {c) Syftema naturae, edit. Lipfiae 1748. in 8vo, p- 216. 
(42) Philofoph. Botan. edit. Stockholm. 1751. in 8vo.p.9!-" 
(ec) Anthol. 1. 2. p. 1607-—185. | 
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