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_ PHYSICAL axp LITERARY. 263 
to the /figma, than it can have, when the fa- 
mina are feparated, ahd expo(ed to the winds; 
efpecially, if it be true, as Mr Vaillant has it, 
that, in hermaphrodite flowers, and fuch, ac- 
cording to the Sexualifts, is the nympbaca, 
and fome other aquatics, the duft is not 
‘thrown out at once with fuch violence, as it 
3 “is where the {exes are feparated, “ fed actum 
« generationis (adds Mr Gener) floribus clau- 
« fis exercent, dum ftigma adhuc intra me- 
«« dias antheras continetur.” (/) 
41. I mention thefe two learned authors, 
tho’ I have the misfortune to differ from 
them, not only becaufe they are com mended by 
Linnaeus, efpecially Vaillant, of whom he fays, 
“+ primus clare fexum expofuit (m),” but alfo 
_ that I may help them to a better inftance, 
than the partetaria, of the fudden explofion of 
4 the duft of the apices in barren flowers: it is 
ew 
the common flowering nettle, or urtica urens 
- maxima, B. p. 232+ (n) ; for one cannot 
obferve 
(/) Vid n. 21. fupra. 
(m) Bib. bot. 173. 
(z) That is for a fpecimen of botanical fuperfluity ; urtica 
tg foliis cordatis amentis, cylindraceis, fexu diftin@tis, mas, Fl. 
lap. p. 299; uttica foliis oblongo-cordatis, Hinica, Et CIE. 
P, 440; urtica dioica foliis oblongo-cordatis, Fl. fuec. p. 2823 
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fee SF 
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urtica mafcula, Syft. Nat. 1333 urtica perennis, Amaen. 
Acad, 2. 25. 99. 
