iG6 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



As for his obfervations on the viola trico- 

 lor, I pafs them, becaufe nothing to the 

 purpofe; and alfo too fmutty for Britifh 

 cars. But let us hear what the great Lin- 

 naeus by himfelf fays. 



24. " Generationem vegetabiHum 

 " fieri, 8cc. (fays he) confirmat oculus, 

 *' Pollinem intrare germina credidit Mo- 

 " rilandus ; ejufdem eiTentiam extrahi, 

 " mediante ftigmate madido, ftatuit Vail- 

 ** lant: Pollinem aceris rumpi in humore 

 " vidit Bern. Jufllaeus : Omnem pollinem 

 ** in humore explodere auram feminalem, 

 " confirmat Needham *." But Morland's 

 opinion is fully confuted by Vaillant, who 

 maintains only that the vapour, or vola- 

 tile fpirit of the male dud, enters the tra- 

 chiae of the ftylus ; but not a word caii 

 I find in his difcourfe, concerning the at- 

 tradion of the effence of the duft by- 

 means of the moid ftigma; and, although 

 it Ihould all burft in moifture, I do not fee 

 how it thence follows, that it thus fends 

 out an aura Jeminahs j elpecially, fince it 



jdoes 



• Phil. Bot, p. 91, 



