236 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
23. “Ira fefe in plantis habere, (fays 
“<M. Wablbom) dictitat primo oculus. Flo- 
*‘re florefcente, et polline antherarum vo- 
“litante, quod ftigmati pollen inhzreat, pri- 
** ma fronte obvium eft (w).” But it is not at 
all obvious, far lefs does the eye fee, that ge- 
neration is thus accomplifhed; for this duft 
as often befpatters the perala, &c. Neither 
does what he adds concerning the florefcentia 
viole tricoloris, gratiolae, irédis, campunalae 
et fyngencharum, in the leaft favour him. 
For, tho’ all he fays were true, thefe make 
but a very inconfiderable part of the vege- 
table kingdom. Yet they feem rather to 
make againft him. For in thefe compound 
flowers, which he calls /yngencfiae, the 
“‘ antherae funt lineares, erectae, lateribus 
** coalitae in cylindrum tubulatum. Szylus 
“ filiformis erectus {taminum longitudine, 
‘cantherarum cylindrum perforans. /ligma 
“ bipartitum, laciniis revolutis, patentibus.” 
Lin. Gen. pl. p. 370. To which if we add, 
that thefe antherac {plit, and emit their duft, 
on the outfide, not infide, of this cylinder, 
While the tigma is commonly pretty far a- 
bove 
(~) Amuen Acad. z. p. 90. 
