PHYSICAL ann LITERARY, a7¥ 
— cotyledonibus, fine tunicis animo concipi- 
 € enda funt.—Flos autem obfcure nobis per- 
** cipitur, cum nullum /fy/um, nullumque /?ig- 
“© ma habeat:” if, what he calls a ‘feed, real- 
ly takes root and grows (for I find not that 
either he or Dillenius made the experiment) ; 
‘it has a better claim to the character of a 
gem, than of a feed. And, whether or not, 
it is evident that the ** generatio mufcorum 
“‘minime fit, mediante  pollinis antherarum 
** illapfu fupra ftigmata nuda.” 
54. THE fame learned author (2) afferts, 
“© Quod pulvis in capitulis mufcorum fit pol- 
* len mafculum :” that the ‘ femina lycopodii 
‘¢ officinarum, funt purum putum pollen (/) ;” 
tho’ others think them all rather feeds. But, 
_whether they are either, I fhall not, can- 
not determine: only they feem to refemble 
more the feed of the /ingua cervina; which 
has been found fertile (7), without the foe- 
cundating influence of any antherae yet difco- 
_ vered, that I know of. But, granting the 
_ above cited aphorifm to be true in its largeft 
* extent, it can never prove the alledged ufe of 
apie . the 
(8) P. 300. 
(/) P. 293. 
(m) Vid. Il. ox. 3. p. 555. 
