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" attired ; fo that it feems to perform its 

 " fervice to the feed, as the foliature to the 

 ** fruit. In difcourfe hereof with our karn- 

 ** ed SaviHan profefFor, Sir Thomas Mil- 

 " lington, he told me, he conceived that 

 " the attire doth ferve as the male for the 

 " generation of the feed. I immediate- 

 " ly, replied, that I was of the fame opi- 

 " nion ; gave him fome reafons for it, and 

 " anfwered fome obje(5lions that mighc 

 " oppofe them." 



Whether, as fome pretend, this com- 

 pliment paid to Sir Thomas Millington, 

 fbows him to be of this opinion before 

 our author, I leave to the learned to de- 

 termine ; for my part, I think the words 

 cannot bear it. And Mr Ray * gives it 

 for Dr Grew, without naming Sir Tho- 

 mas. 



8. Dr Grew then proceeds to give the 

 fum of his thoughts concerning this mat- 

 ter; and plainly alTerts, as his opinion, 

 that, when the attire or apices break, or o- 

 pen, the globules or duft falls down on 



the 



