PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. 281 
) 67. Bur, if it be infifted on, that its 
primary ufe muft refpec the plant itfelf; 
Wiestiags Caefalpinus may be in the right, with 
relation to the plants, whereof fome, in the 
fame fpecies, carry /famina, and others the 
feed (r) : and Malpightus (f), and Tourne- 
fort, with relation to fuch as bear both on 
the fame individual plant: vz. that it carries 
off what is excrementitious, and unfit for nou- 
ring the feed (¢). I own, indeed, that this 
opinion does not well agree with that of 
Caefalpinus ; it being more than probable, 
- that the duft of the apices, in barren as well 
as fertile flowers, is of the fame nature, and 
defigned for the fame ufe. 
58. Anp, from what has been obferved of 
the parietaria, ficus, viola, &c. yea and from 
the general ftructure of fertile, as well as bar- 
ren flowers ; it is alfo more than probable, 
that this duft is rather excrenientitious and 
Nn noxious 
_ (r) Vid. fapra. No. 6. 
* (/) Vid. p. 70. 
 (#} “Petala (fays Tournefort) alimentum a pediculo ac- 
© ceptum vifceris inftar, perficiunt, et fruétui nifcenti. fuppe- 
«“ ditent ; 3 ineptis humoris partibus per ftamina, feu vafa ex- 
© cretoria, abeuntibus in apices feu receptacula. Dixinius 
3 jam apices, quicquid minus apti continet alimentum, in fe 
“© recipere rerumque valvas a congeftis excrementis deduci.” 
“Ink, p- 69. and 70, 
