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“PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. 273 
« Erit igitur probabiliter femen quafi gemma 
pendula et decidua, alicno germinatura 
« folo.” And although the learned Petrus 
Lofling, in his treatife called Gemmae Arbo- 
rum, (r), or rather the publither himfelf,) is 
-pleafed to fay, ‘* qui gemmam  fibi réprefen- 
‘tant ut alterum femen, fallunt et’ fallun- 
tur’ (/); yet his defcription of a gemma 
- feems not altogether to agree with this moran- 
dum: for (t) he fays, ‘“* gemma eft pars plan- 
“tae radici infidens, quae occultat fquamis, 
« foliorum rudimentis, embryonem) futurae 
** herbae.” And below. (z), he explains what - 
he means by radix thus, ‘* Hae gemmae infi- 
«* dent, vel radici fub terra reconditae, vel ra- 
<< dici fupra terram in truncum ramofum affur~ 
~ & genti; illae, ubi carnofae fuerint atque mag- 
« nae, duldi nomine veniunt, &c.” And-ele- 
where (x), ‘‘ Gemmam proinde concipio in- 
“ {tar herbae in compendium redactae, tectae 
“ et contractae fua inter extrema folia, ut ab 
aéris injuria confervetur; cui herbae nihil 
M m ** amplius 
_ (r) Amaen. Acad. 2. p. 182. 224» 
(/) P. 185. note k. 
mar).P. 185. 
(uv) P. 186. 
{x) P. 192. 
