PHYSICAL ann’ LITERARY. 241 
- 26. The third argt is, Ex /oco ftaminum 
et piftilli, non leve argumentum petere pof- 
« fumus; nam in plerifque plantis, floribus 
< hermaphroditicis preditis, ftamina ambiunt 
<¢ ovarium, et ea ratione ut maxima ‘pars ge- 
“ niturae ad ftigma accedat.” Gefnerus (c). 
Can the ffamina {arround the evarium, in the 
monandriae, diandriae, &c.? but this needs no 
anfwer ; neither what he adds concerning the 
piftilli fabrica, and antherarum materies, which 
is nothing to the purpofe. | 
_ « Tertio, Jocus. Etenim ftamina plerumque 
«¢ piftillum ambiunt, ut ventorum ope femper 
« quidquam pulveris attingat ftigma.” Wabl- 
bom (d). But the learned author cannot but 
know, that the /lamina ftanding round the 
-piffillum can never prove the neceflity of the 
 duft’s falling on the /tigma of every plant, in 
order to its foecundity ; efpecially when this 
ig not always their fituation. He adds, ‘* Mo- » 
« neciae flores mafculi plerumque fupra flo- 
res foemineos collocantur, ut pollen eo me- 
A fius in piftillum decidat ;’?. and inftances 
ricinus among others: but, {ure I am, the 
g ricinus vulgaris B. p. has all its female flowers 
s } Hh above 
(c) Differt. p. 9. 
(d) Amaen. Acad. 1. p. 9I- 
