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globular figure or fpecific gravity of this 
duft, a north wind only could drive it to-— 
ward the females, which coming over the 
Caltonbill, mutt rather have driven it into the 
ground, or into the intervening hedges. And 
indeed this fuppofition is fo evidently extrava- 
gant, that J find not any notice taken of it, by 
the moft ftrenuous defenders of the fexual 
fcheme. 
19. Bur the other fuppofition of the la- 
tent fy, in eguifeto &c. feems to have given 
occafion to another as extraordinary, viz. of 
latent famina, in cannabis, lupuli, &c. foe- 
mellis “« Accidit interdum, fays Mr Waklbom, 
*orrather Mr Linnaeus, (7) ut cannabis fe- 
‘© minifera, unum alterumve ferat florem 
‘« ftaminiferum, quo nonnullae feminae im- 
“* pregnari poffint; quod Camerarium lu- 
“fit.” Granting this fhould happen fome- 
times, and that thefe Gentlemen have feen it, 
(which, however, is not here afferted); yet 
T may fay, that I believe they are the firft that 
ever fawit, and that this is not enough to re- 
move Camerarius’s doubt, nor to weaken the 
argument 
(4) Amaen. Acad. vol. 1. edit. Lug. Bat. 2749. 8vo. p 99. 
