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can refute. However, to clear up further 

 this controverfy, I fhall con^jler the ar- 

 guments advanced by the mofl famous 

 fexualifts, as they are fummed up by the 

 very learned Carolus Linnaeus, in his 

 Fundamenta Botanica ; explained by Jo. 

 Gefnerus *, and demonftrated, they fay, 

 by Jo. Wahlbom t» and Car. Linnseus 

 himfelf %, 



21. Generationem vegetabillum fieri, 

 mediante pollinis antherarum, &c. ut fu- 

 pra, N° 15' confirmat (or, as in former 

 'editions, d'lBitat) I. oculus, F. B. § 145'. 

 Hdw the eye fhews or confirms the gene- 

 ration of vegetables, to be thus effedled, 

 is explained three different ways. For, 



I, " Ipfa autopfia (fays J. Gefner) 

 "'hune generationis adlum edocet. Pri- 

 ** mus qui ilorum connubia vidit, eel. D. 



*' Seb. 



• Diilertationes pkyGcae de vegetabilibus, Lugd. Bat. 

 1 743* ^^<^> conjundum cum C. Linnsei oratione de necef- 

 fuate peregrinationum. Explicant elementa botanica 

 Linnxi. Lin. bib. p. 174. 



t In the fponfalia plantarum, Amaen. acad. vol. i. 

 p> 6it ad 109a 

 X In f hil. botan. 



