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eument drawn from the above experiments, 
lef they can fay, that the feed-bearing 
hemp carries always one or more fuch ftami- 
_ niferous flowers; or that the cannabis of Ca- 
" merarius, and the other abovementioned, 
hhad really fach flowers in it, which they 
canhot affert. For my part, I can declare 
that tho’ I fearched very carefully for the 
‘j feed of the hemp plant, (&) I could fee no- 
_ thing like famina on it; neither on the feed- 
bearing plants of the fpinacia, mercurialis, 
| bryonia, either before or finceI read Mr 
— Wablbou's Sponfalia Plantarum. 
| 20. Hence I think the pofition of that 
learned botanift ‘Yulius Pontedera, viz. ‘* A- 
_ * picum liquorem embryonis foecundationi 
_ ‘in omnibus plantis non effe neceffarium,” 
to be a demonftrable truth, which neither 
_ authorities nor arguments can refute. How- 
.e¥er to clear up further this controverfy, I 
- fhall confider the arguments advanced by the 
‘moft famous fexualifts, as they are fummed 
up by the very learned Carolus Linnacus, in his 
_ Fundamenta Botanica; explained by ‘fo. Gef- 
nerus 
i (4){Exp. 2. 
