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added nothing new, of confequence, on 

 this fubje^, yet he feems to claim the ho- 

 nour of being the inventor of all ; for, af- 

 ter giving his conjeftures, with relation to 

 the manner how this duft impregnates the 

 feed, and as his own too, though the one 

 be G ew*s and the other Morland's, he 

 thus concludes : 



" But, whichfoever of thefe conje(n:ures 

 " be pitched on, it remains always cer- 

 " tain, by my obfervations, that the dufl 

 ** of the apices, which has been hitherto 

 " negle-^ted as vile excrements, which in 

 " a manner disfigured the flowers, are ne- 

 ** verthelefs parts elTential, and necefTary 

 ** to the foecundity of plants " The pains 

 however he has been at, in examining and 

 defcribing the dull of the apices, of a con- 

 fiderable number of plants, if accurately 

 performed, might have procured him 

 better treatment than he met with from 

 fome of his countrymen. 



14. In 17 17, M. Vaillant, at the open- 

 ing of the royal garden, entertained his 

 audience with a difcourfe on the llrufture 



of 



