sj-o ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



" et vegetantibus accic^ere *." Upon the 

 whole, it is evident that Mr Vaillant af- 

 fumes more the air of an original writer 

 on this fubje6l than belongs to him. He 

 never mentions Grew, Ray, or Camerari* 

 us , and quotes only fome pafTages from 

 GeoiTroy, for the pleafure of confuting 

 them 



15 I ihall pafs a variety of later au- 

 thors who h^-ve treated on this fubjedl j 

 and come to the moft ftrenuoub defen- 

 der of the lexes of plants, who has col- 

 le6ied all the arguments for it that per- 

 haps can be advanced, and pretends to 

 have demondrated it fully: I mean the 

 famous and very learned Carolus Linnseus, 

 profeflbr of medicine and botany in the 

 nniverfity of ITpfal, fellow of a great ma- 

 ny philofophical focieties ; and certainly 

 one of the greateft botanifts of this age. 

 For this great m.an thus writes : " Anthe- 

 *' ras et ftigmata f conftituere fexum 

 *' plantarum, a palmtcolis, MilHngtono, 



*' Grewio, 



* V:J. p, 17. 



f I bat is, the apices, andextremifyof the ftylus. 



