ap ft 
“= if foy sD 4 
5 seit Sn wets 
ase *; 
: 
PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. 239 
Wahlbom (y), That, ** in omnibus fere flo- 
« ribus confpicitur, quomodo, aére humido, 
& flofculos complicant, ne aqua pollen attin- 
‘© oat.” By no means, therefore, can the 
eye be faid to confirm the fexual fcheme. 
25. Tux fecond argument for this fcheme 
is taken from the proportion which the an- 
therae bear to the /tylus. 
« Ex proportione quoque, (fays Gefirerus) 
axz), verofimiliter judicamus, cum, pro 
« magnitudine et numero feminum, ipfa quo- 
* que ftamina majora fint vel numerofiora.” 
But that this is evidently a miftake, will ap- 
peat to any one that will take the pains, to 
compare Linnaei monandriae with his poly- 
andriaé; or the cannacorus with the prumus, 
and other ftoned fruits: the /yngenefiae have 
five famina for one feed, and that, not feldom 
a very fmall one: the wmbelliferae, as many 
for two feeds, &c. 
“Tra fefe in plantis habere dictitat fecun- 
«< da proportio: plerumque ftamina et piftilla 
“‘ eandem ferunt altitudinem, ut eo melius 
“ad {tigma pollen, mediante vento, accedat ; 
‘in 
_-{y) Amaen Acad. 1. p. 93- 
(2) Differt. p. 91. 
