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" Sed accedas opportet hora facra veneri ; 

 " aurora eft quae favec his ccjngreffibus ; 

 ** ubi vero agere renuunt fatis opportune, 

 ** aciculae apice, leniter modo, ftimulus. 

 " In hermaphroditis, ubi duo fexus con- 

 *' jundli habentur, multum abeft ut tan- 

 *' to impetu explodatur. Plerique enim 

 ** flores, praecipue nutantes, in quibus 

 ** piftillum obliquum intra ftamina pofi- 

 ** turn habet a(5tutn generationis floribus 

 *' claulis exercent, dum ftigma adhuc in« 

 ** tra medias antberas continetur," Thus 

 Mr Gefner *. 



22. Allow me here to obferve, in the 

 firft place, that this artificial apparatus f 

 was feen and defcribed by John Bauhi- 

 nus, long before Vaillant was born J, and 



tranf^ 



• Difl. p. 86. 



t Tout cette mechanique, Vaill. 



^ *' Pariecariae flofculi conferti circa caulem ex foIU 

 •• orom alis, fleet os coccinei ferici imitantur. primulum 

 <* e nodulo emicantes : Poll fe Aamina oftendunt obfcure, 

 ** ex albo purpurafcentibus apiculis involuta, quae fi 

 •' ftylo evolvere coneris, fublultum excuffo pulvere cum 



impetu, fpedlaculo jucundo, fe expaadunt repanda, 

 ** in medio femiius rudimentum circundaotia." I- B, 2* 

 p. 97<S. 



