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tant, expofed to the South and Weft. Both 
ants ripened fertile feeds ; and the laft thed 
them fo plentifully, that it proved a trouble- 
~ fome weed for feveral years: tho’ none of 
the fpecies was to be found in that garden, 
for more than twenty years preceeding. 
. Hence the daft of, the apices of thefe 
three fpecies of plants, cannot, on any ac- 
_ count, be called their gemitura. And the 
_ fame may be faid of the /upulus, according to 
_ Mr Tournefort’s obfervation (f) of the dryonia, 
iq as noticed by Mr Millar (g), yea of Mr hae. 
 roy’s mays mentioned above. 
18. Tue learned Valentini (h) attempts to 
remove Camerarius’s doubts two ways. 1. 
_ Perhaps, fays he, there may be found latent 
_ ftyli among the apices of the equifetum : and 2. 
_ The wind may carry the pollen feminale, (or 
_ duft of the apices) to as great a diftance, as 
the mercurialis, vel frumenti Turcict feminina 
can be feparated from their proper males. 
 Tuar the wind could have’ this effect, 
even on the /pinage male dufi, is far from 
. _ being probable’: for, to fay nothing of the 
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