276 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
«dem non affequitur,” as Linnaeus afferts (e). 
I know he attempts to prove it thus (f), * Mu/- 
“ corum femina Nos; lemnae flores delineati 
‘a Vallifnerio; fucorum flores obfervavit Reau- 
<< mur; pilulariae flores inveftigavit B. Fuffiae- 
“us; fungorum ftamina defcripfit Michehus.” 
And this is all, and affords but a lame proof, 
and moftly conjectural. 
Tuus, although Dillenius (g), in the end» 
of a particular defcription of the /élago foliis 
et facie abietis R. fyn. p. 106. or upright 
ficr-mofi, fays, ‘ plura non obfervavi, nec 
*«¢ femina in his vel calycibus, vel foliis bra- 
‘* teatis invenire potui:” yet becaufe he adds, 
«* Sufpicor autem bracteas illas folia femina- 
‘‘ Jia efle, et novarum plantarum produétioni 
‘‘infervire;” the learned author of the /e- 
_ mina mufcorum (bh), pofitively concludes, 
‘¢ Hae foliola, tempore autumnali matura de- 
‘* cidunt a calyce perfiftente, et novam plan- 
‘* tam propagant, radiculas e bafi exferentia.” 
But, fince below (i) he owns, that ‘* Semi- 
‘© na mufcorum tanquam nuda corcula, fine 
«© cotyledonibus, 
(e) Fund. bot, § 139. 
(f) Phil. bot. p. 89. 
(g) Hift. Mofc, p. 437. 
(4) Amaen. acad. p. 2. 295. 
(4) P. 299. 
