270 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



" Tertio, locus, Etenim ftamina plerum- 

 " que piftillum ambiunt,ut ventorum ope 

 " Ismper quidquam pulveris attingatftig' 

 " ma j" Wahlbom *. But the learned 

 author cannot but know, that the ftami- 

 na ftanding round the piftillum can never 

 prove the neceflity of the duft's falling on 

 the fligma of every plant, in order to its 

 foecundity i efpecially when this is not al- 

 ways their Situation. He adds, " Mone- 

 '* ciae flores mafculi plerumque fupra flo- 

 ** res foemineos collocantur, ut pollen eo 

 *' melius in piftillum decidat ;" and in- 

 ftances ricinus among others : But, fare 

 I am, the ricinus vulgaris B. p. has all its 

 female flowers above the male flowers ; 

 the ftigma of the uppermoft being com- 

 monly fome inches above the neareft fta- 

 mina. 



"Locus. Nunquam piftilliferae fponte 

 " nafcuntur fine ftaminiferis in eadem 

 " terra ; prodeunt ex eodem femine am- 

 " bae }" Linnaeus f* But this cannot be 

 proven. Yea, Camerarius aflerts the con- 

 trary. 



• Atrsn. Acad. i. p, 91. 

 t Phil. Bot. p. 91. 



