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" Grewio, Rayo, Camerario, Godotredo, 

 " Morlando, Vaillantio, Blairio, Juilicvio, 

 *' Bradleyo, Royeno, Logano, &c. detec- 

 " turn, defcriptum, et pro infallibJi af- 

 "fumptum: Nee ullam, apertis oculis 

 " confiderantem cujufcunque plantae flo- 

 " res, latere poteft ; quod demonftraturn 

 ** in Sponfalibus Plantarum, Upfaliae 

 " 1746, in 4to *." And elfewhere f 

 " Generationem vegetabilium fieri, medi- 

 " ante poUinis antherarum illapfu fupra 

 " fligmata nuda, quo rumpitur pollen, ef- 

 ** flatque auram feminalem, quae abfor- 

 ** betur ab humore ftigmatis ; quod con- 

 " firmat oculus, proportio, locus, tempus, 

 " pJuviae, palmicolae, flores nutantes, 

 " fiibmerfi, fyngenefia ; immo omnium 

 ** florum gcnuina confideratio." 



Yft I cannot help thinking this doc- 

 trine not capable of demonftration, far 

 le?s that the genuina conftderatio of any 

 flower can make it probable : Gamerari- 



' us 



• Syftema naturae, edit. Lipfiae 1748, in 8vo, p. 216. 



t Philofophi Botan. edit. Stockholm. 175 1. in 8vo. 

 page 91. 



