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the feed-cafe or uterus, and touches it 

 with a prolific virtue; not by entering 

 bodily, or as to its grofs fubftance, but 

 only by communicating to it fonie fubtle 

 and vivific effluvia *. 



9. Among the firft who adopted this 

 dodlrine, was Mr John Ray, that great 

 natural hiftorian ; at firft indeed only as 

 probable "f, but aftervtards as proven by 

 many arguments, which are colledted in 

 the preface to his fylloge ftirpium European 

 rum extra Britannias nafcentiumy printed 

 at London 1694, in 8vo: Whether thefe 

 arguments fufficiently prove the do(flrine 

 will be confidered below. 



10. In 1695, Rudolphus Jacobus Ca- 

 merarius, protefTor of botany and medi- 

 cine at Tubingen, publilhed there an epi- 

 jiola defexu plantarum, in 1 2mo % : This I 



have not feen, but only an abftradl of it 

 in the appendix to Mifcl. nat. cur. Dec. 



• See Crew's anat. fol. p. 171. 



t V.i. R. Hilt p. 18. 



X Reprinted Fraacolurti, 1701, io 4to, Lin. bib, bot. 



