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« et foecundiores fieri aiunt, fi juxta wa- 

 «« rei ferantur ; ut in palma eft animad- 

 «« verfum : Quafi halitus quidam, ex ma- 

 " re efflans, debilem foeminae calorem 

 ** expleat ad frudificandum." 



Sect. II. 



7. But of late it has been maintained 

 by not a few, that there is as real a diver- 

 fity of fexes in every fpecies of plants, as 

 in every fpecies of animals ; and, firft of 

 all by the celebrated naturalift Dr N. 

 Grew, to whom therefore the honour of 

 the invention is of right due. For this 

 great man, in his anatomy of flowers, 

 read before the Royal Society November 

 9. 1676, after noticing the fecondary 

 ufes of the duft of the apices, which he 

 calls gkbulets or fmall particles within 

 the thecae of the attire, he adds, " But 

 " the primary and chief ufe is fuch as has 

 " refped to the plant itfelf, and fo appears 

 " to be very great and neceffary ; becaufe 

 " even thofe plants which have no flower 

 " or foliature, are yet fome way or other 



" attired? 



