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it be true, as Mr Vaillant has it, that, ia 

 hermaphrodite flowers, and fuch, accord- 

 ing to the Sexualifts, is the nymphaea, 

 and fome other aquatics, the dull is not 

 thrown out at once with fuch violence, as 

 ■ it is where the fexesare feparaced : *' bed ac- 

 ** turn generationis (adds Mr Gefner) flo- 

 " ribus claufis exercent, dum fligma ad- 

 ** hue intra medias antheras contine- 

 »«tur*." 



41. I mention thefe two learned au" 

 thors, though I have the misfortune to 

 differ from them, not only becaufe they 

 ^re recommended by Linnaeus . efpecially 

 Vallaint, of whom he fays, *• primus cla* 

 ** re fexum expofuitf." but alio that I 

 may help them to a better inftance. than 

 the parietaria, of the fudden explofion of 

 the duft of the apices in barren flowers : 

 It is the common flowering nettle, or ur- 

 tjca urens maxima, B. p. 232. J ; for one 



can- 



• Vidi n. 21. fupra. 

 f Bib, bot. 17,3. 



it That is for a fpecitren of botanical fuperfluity ; ur- 

 tica foliis cordatis amentis, cylindraceis, fezu difcinftis, 



mas. 



