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the globular figure or fpecific gravity 

 of this dull, a north wind only could 

 drive it toward the females, which, co- 

 ming over the Cakonhill, muft rather 

 have driven it into the ground, or into 

 the interveening hedges* i'^nd indeed 

 this fiippofition is fo evidendy extrava- 

 gant that I find not any notice taken of 

 it by the moft ftrenuous defenders of 

 the fexual fcheme. 



19. But the other fuppofition of the 

 latent ftyli in eguifeto, &c. feems to have 

 given occafion to another as extraordi* 

 nary, viz. of latent ftamina in cannabis, 

 lupuli, &c. foemellis : " Accidit interdum,'* 

 fays Mr Wahlbom, or rather Mr Tianse- 

 us, * " ut cannabis feminifera, unum al- 

 ** terumve ferat florem flaminiferum, 

 " quo nonnullae foeminae impregnari 

 " pofTint ; quod Camerarium lufit." 

 Granting this fhould happen Ibmetimes, 

 and that thefe gentlemen have feen it, 

 (which, however, is not here afTerted) ; 

 Vol. L K k yet 



* Amaeo. acad. vol. i, edit. Lug, Bat. 1749 Svo, 

 p. 99. 



