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but only notice, that they neither prove nor 
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“vegetables as well. as animals, as certainly, 
according to our author it does; then he 
might as well have faid, Omnia animalia et 
vegetabilia ex ovis, et per confequens etiam ve- 
getabilia > if vivum do not include vegetables, 
the confequence does not follow. The fame 
holds in the feecond, and feveral others of 
his aphorifms. 
50. In how many things foever plants and 
animals may agree, certainly they do not a- 
gree in every thing. ‘‘ Ad fummum, (fays 
“< Theophraftus) (n) non omnia fimiliter atque 
“< in animalibus accipi debent: nam (in plan- 
“‘ tarum genere) vis undique germinandi ha- 
_ * betur ; quoniam et undique animatum eft.” 
_ And Malpighius (0), ‘‘ In vegetantibus, ubi 
*‘non eft tantus organorum apparatus, et 
** cuilibet fenfibili particulae, omnia infunt 
** quae in toto deprehenduntur : nulla interce- 
* dente generatione, ab{cifli quicunque rami 
“ frequenter in novam fobolem excrefcunt ; 
“© vel naturae minifterio, deciduae minimae 
_ “et compendiariae plantulae, a tenellis fur- 
+ culis 
(z) De hift. pl. 1. 1.c. 1. 
(0) Anat. pl. p. 76. 
