a64 ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



at all obvious, far lefs does the eye fee, that 

 generation is thus accomplifhed ; for this 

 duft as often befpatters the petal a, &:c» 

 Neither does what he adds concerning the 

 florefcentia *uiolae tricoloris^ gratiolae, 

 iridis, campunalae, et fyngenefiarum^ in 

 the leaft favour him. For, though all 

 he fays were true, thefe make but a very 

 inconfiderable part of the vegetable king- 

 dom. Yet they feem rather to make a- 

 gainfl him. For, in thefe compound flowers, 

 which he calls fyngenefiae, the " antherae 

 " funt lineares, ereiflae, lateribus coalitae 

 " in cylindrum tubulatum. Stylus fili- 

 " formis eredlus, ftaminum longitudine, 

 *' antherarum cylindrum perforans j ftig- 

 " ma bipartitum, laciniis revolutis, pa- 

 *• tentibus." Lin, Getu pi. p. 370. To 

 which if we add, that thefe antherae fplit, 

 and emit their duft, on the outfide, not 

 infide, of this cylinder, while the ftigma 

 is commonly pretty far above it ; What 

 can reafonably be inferred from this ftruc- 

 ture, but that nature defigned this duft 

 fhould be thrown away as ufelefs, if not 

 hurtful to the ftylus ? 



Again, 





