232 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
nerus (?), and demonftrated, they fay, by fo. 
Wablbom (m), and Car. Linnaeus himfelf (n). 
21. Generationem vegetabilium fieri, me- 
diante pollinis antherarum, &c. ut fupra, Ne 
15. confirmat (or, as in former editions, dié#i- 
tat) 1. oculus, F. B. § 145. How the eye 
fhews or confirms the generation of vegeta- 
bles, to be thus effected, is explained three 
different ways. For, 
1. ‘*Ipfa outopfia (fays F. Gefner) hunc 
“‘ generationis actum edocet.. Primus qui 
‘¢ florum connubia vidit, cel. D. Seb. Vaillant 
** (0) tam eleganter defcribit, ut nemini de 
«‘ hac re dubium fuperefle poffit. Ita autem 
‘cl. Vaillant, ‘‘ Quoties acciderit, ut in ea- 
*‘dem ftirpe flores gerantur fimul, quorum 
‘¢ hi foemininatantum, illi autem moafculina 
“¢ et foeminina conjuncta organa cingunt, ar- 
‘¢ rectio tumorque organorum mafculinorum 
** in his tam fubito contingit, ut lobuli gem- 
" “mae 
(/) Differtationes Phyficae de Vegetabilibus, Lugd. Bat. 
1743. 8vo conjunétum cum C. Linnaei oratione de neceflitate 
peregrinationum. Explicant elementa botanica Linnaei. 
Lin. bib. vol. p.174. 
m) In the Sponfalia Plantarum, Anraen. Acad. vol. 1. p. 
61. ad 109. 
(z) In Phil. Botan, 
(9) In lib. de ftruétura florum. 
