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PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 275 
part of a: plant may be made to grow and 
emit gems, whether it be naturally fertile 
‘or barren, male, female, or hermapbrodite ; 
does it not clearly follow, that neither dif- 
ference of fex, nor zllapfus pollinis anthe- 
rarum fupra fiigmata nuda, are neceflary to 
the production of the primordia plantarum, 
the effence of feeds, as well as of gems; 
and that no imagined analogy between plants 
and animals, can warrant or excufe the fulfom 
and obfcene names, impofed by the Sexuali/ts 
en the different parts of the fructification of 
vegetables (d) ? 
53. Nort a few other arguments againft 
the modern dotrine of the fexes of plants, 
might be brought from the ftructure of ma- 
ny compleat flowers, as well as from the nu- 
merous tribes of fuch as are called lefs per- 
D feet fome of which produce feed, but want 
flowers ; others have neither flowers nor feed. 
For it requires more than an ipfe dixit to 
prove, that ‘* omnis fpecies vegetabilium flo- 
ss re et fructu inftruitur, etiam whi vifus eaf- 
4 ‘© dem 
_ (d) Vid Cl. LinnAg1 fundamenta botanica, § 140, 1435 
pt 
144, et 146, and the learned commentaries on thefe, in the 
Bponfglia plantarum, and Philofophia botauica, 
