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«Situs: Didynamittis ftamina adfcendunt 
~ se-ftillum fledtit.” “But in the defcription of 
his clafs 14. or dédynamia, «« Antherae fub 
«« Jabio fuperiore /aepius reconditae” (f). And, 
s* concerning the /itus, he adds, ‘* Monaccrae 
4 pleraeque flores ftamineos fupra piftilliferos 
« gerunt: zea, ricinus.” But the flores. fia- 
minei are below the piffilliferi in ricinus. 
“What he fays of tempus, is anfwered above ; 
of caftratio, below: and what he obferves 
of the Joculamenta antherarum, and pollinis 
firudura, teach nothing, but the author’s 
conjectures. | 
46. But, whether *thefe arguments be 
-conclufive or not, caffratio florum moft cer- 
tainly demoniftrates the ufe of the farina foc- 
~ <cundans, and cobfequently the fexes of plants. 
4 Veritatem’hanc probat cafiratio. Si anthe- 
«ras alicujus-plantae unitlorae auferamus, et, 
«ne aliqua alia ejufdem fpeciei adfit, cure- 
«© mus; abortit fructus, vel faltem ova profert 
«« fubventanea 5 quod adeo certum, ut quif- 
«que nullo non fucceffu id experiri queat,” 
Wablbam (g). ‘ Caftratio: Melonis flores fta- 
‘* mineos 
(ff) Vid. Lin. Gen. pl. p. 261. 
(g) Amaen. Acad. 1. p. 86. 
