25^ ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



to be found in that garden, for more 

 than twenty years preceeding. 



Hfnce the dufl of the apices of thefe 

 three fpecies of plants, cannot, on any ac- 

 count, be called their genitura. And the 

 fame may be faid of the lupulus, accor- 

 ding to Mr Tournefort's obfervation * of 

 the bryonia, as noticed by Mr Millar f, 

 yea of Mr GeofFroy's mays mentioned a-, 

 bove. 



1 8. The learned Valentini { attempts 

 to remove Camerarius's doubts two ways. 

 I. Perhaps, fays he, there may be found 

 latent ftyli among the apices of the equi- 

 fetum : And, 2- The wind may carry the 

 pQllen feminale (or dufl of the apices) to 

 as great a diftance, as the mercurialis, njel 

 frument'i Turc'ici foemimna can be feparated 

 from their proper males. 



That the wind could have this effect, 

 even on the fpinage male-duft, is far from 

 being probable: For, to fay nothing of 



the 



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f Gard, Did. abridg. 



X German, ephemer. I. c. 



