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apices do not fplit, at leaft generally fpeak- 
ing, fo far as I have obferved, until their co- — 
vers open: it appears to be a more natuyal. 
inference, that this duft is not defigned to fall 
on the /iigma, or to impregnate the feed (). 
And, confequently, that ‘** Omnium florum — 
‘‘ genuina confideratio, nec dictitat, nec con- 
‘‘ firmat, generationem vegetabilium fieri”’ 
in the manner the Sexualifts pretend. 
45. ALTHO’ I have already, perhaps, been 
too tedious, and faid enough to overturn the 
modern do¢trine of the fexes of plants; yet 
there ftill remain fome arguments for it, 
which I cannot pafs. For Linuaeus fays, ‘* An- 
«< theras effe plantarum genetalia mafeulina, et 
“ earum pollen veram genituram, docet eflen- 
‘“‘tia, praecedentia, fitus, tempus, locu- 
«‘lamenta, caftratio, pollinis ftructura: /fi- 
‘< gmata, germini ubique adnexa, efle geneta- 
* ia foeminina, probat eflentia, praecedentia, 
“¢ fitus, tempus, cafus, ab{ciffio (c).” Which 
in Phil. Bot. (¢), anc Sponf. Pl. (e), are ex- 
plained : but confirmed only, either by mif- 
takes, or by falfe confequences. Thus, 
se Situs : 
. (4) Vid. No. 40. fupra. 
(c) Lin. Fund. Bot. § 143. 144+ 
(d) P. 90. 
(ce) P. 84. 
