2^8 ESS ASY AND OBSERVATIONS 



44. But fmce Malpighius, whom I 

 reckon one of the mod genuine contem- 

 plators of flowers, obferves, * chat, *' Tur- 

 " gentibus orbicularibus corporibus qui- 

 ** bus ftaminum capitula replentur, exfic- 

 *' cataque continente capfula, foras pro- 

 ** deunt globuH minimi et difperguntur ;" 

 and that this exficcation does not, cannot 

 well happen, before, by opening of their 

 covers, the (lamina be expofed to the free 

 air J and lince, in faft, the apices do not 

 fplit, at lead generally fpeaking, fo far as 

 I have obferved, until their covers open, 

 it appears to be a more natural inference, 

 that this duft is not defigned to fall on 

 the ftigma, or to impregnate the feed *. 

 And, confequently, that " Omnium flo- 

 *' rum genuina confideratio nee didtitat, 

 " nee confirmat, generationem vegetabili- 

 ** um fieri" in the manner the fexuaUfts 

 pretend. 



45. Although I have already, per- 

 haps, been too tedious, and faid enough 



to 



* p. 63. edit, in 410. 

 I Vid, No. 40. fupra. 



