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does not appear, that the Rigmata muft 

 necefTarily be moid ia order to fertility; 

 and it is obferved by MrWalhboni*,That, 

 " in omnibus fere floribus confpicitur, 

 " quomodo, acre humido, flofculos com- 

 " pUcant, ne aqua pollen attingat." By no 

 means, therefore, can the eye be faid to 

 confirm the fexual fcheme. 



25, The fecond argument for this 

 fcheme is taken from the proportion 

 which the antherae bear to the ftylus. 



** Ex proportione quoque (fays Gefne- 

 " rus) ti verolimiliter judicamus, cum, 

 " pro magnitudine et numero feminum, 

 " ipfa quoque ftamina majora fint vel 

 " numerofiora." But that this is evi- 

 dently a miftake, will appear to any one 

 that will take the pains to compare Lin ■ 

 naei monandriae with his polyandriae ; 

 or the cannacorus with the prunus, and 

 other ftoned fruits : The fyngenefiae have 

 five ftamina for one feed, and that not 



feldom 



• Amaen Acad, i, p. 93. 

 t Differt. p. 9I. 



