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to overturn the modern dodrine of the 

 fexes of plants; yet there ftill remain 

 fome arguments for it, which I cannot 

 pafs. For Linnaeus fays, " AntherasefTe 

 ** plantarum genitalia mafculina, et ea- 

 " rum pollen veram genituram, docet ef- 

 " fentia, praecedentia, litus, tempus, lo- 

 " culamenta, caftratio, poUinis ftrudura : 

 ^' Stigmata, germini ubique adnexa, efTe 

 " genetalia foeminina, probat efTentia, 

 " praecedentia, fitus, tempus, cafus, ab- 

 ** fciflio *." Which in Phil Bot. f, and 

 Sponf. PI. $, are explained : But con- 

 firmed only, either by miftakes, or by 

 falfe confequences. Thus, 



" Situs : Didynamiftis (lamina adfcen- 

 ** dunt fub corollae labium fuperius , quo 

 " et fe piftillum fleait." But in the de- 

 fcription of his clafs 14. or didynamia, 

 " Antherae fub labio fuperiore faepius 

 " reconditae §". And, concerning the fi- 

 tus, 



* Lin. Fund. Bot. § 143. 144. 



t P. 90. 



tP.84. 



^ Vid. Lio. Gen- pi. pi 261 i 



