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** chiae, et cannabis foemellas folirario, 

 *' abfque vicini maris contagio excukas, 

 " plurima granula feminaque foecunda 

 «* obtinuifTe vidit: Et haec in caufa eranr, 

 " cur haec omnia cum aliquali oppofiti 

 ** formidine proponac." 



IK In 17O), Mr Samuel Morland laid 

 before the Royal Society, forae new ob- 

 fervations on the parts and ufe of the 

 flower in plants *. Here, he fays, " Dr 

 " Grew falls fliort, in that he luppofes 

 " the farina only to drop upon the out- 

 " fide of the uterus, and to impregnate 

 •* the included feed by fome fpirituous 

 " emanations, or energetical imprefs.'* 

 So he paraphrafes prolific virtue and fab* 

 tie vivific efiluvia. He then propofes a 

 more probable hypothefis, as he thinks, 

 viz. *' That the farina is a congeries of 

 *' feminal plants ; one of which mud be 

 " conveyed into every ovum or feed, before 

 " it can become prolific." He has the 

 honour, I believe, of being the inventor of 

 VoL.L Hh this 



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