^96' ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



cannot obferve this flinging nettle for a 

 few minutes, in almoft any of the fum- 

 mer-months, if the fun fhines, efpecially 

 before noon, but he muft fee many little 

 clouds of duft, thrown with a fort of ex- 

 ploiion out of the burfling apices, which 

 foon difperfe and fall down. This, how- 

 ever, being a fingle inftance, and, by me, 

 not obferved in fpinacia, mercurialis, can- 

 nabis, or any fucb barren plant; no ge- 

 neral conclufion can be drawn from it. 

 ' 42. Arg, 9. ** Nono, Syngenefia fru- 

 •* ftranea. Flores compofiti variis mo- 

 " dis fabricati funt. — Polygamia fruftra- 

 " nea foeminis exfultat maritatis, totum 

 *' difcum occupantibus ; ilofculi vero 

 ** foeminei radium conflituentes, ob de- 

 *' fedum fligmatis, abundante licet dif- 

 ** ci pulvere, familiam propagare neque- 

 " unt;" Wahlbom *. I omit the reft, 



fince 



mas, Fl. lap. p. 299.; urticafoHis oblongo.cordatis, diol- 

 ca, H. Cliff, p, 440; urtica dioica foliis oblongo-corda- 

 tis, Fl. Suec. p.' 282. ; urtica mafcula, Syft.Nat. 13.3.; 

 urtica perennis, Amaen. Acad. z. 25. 99. 

 * Amasn. Acad. l.p. 96. 



