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** foecundatum germinare, negat omnia 

 " experientia ; adeoque et ova vegetabi- 

 ** Hum ;" Linnaeus *. I fhall not here en- 

 quire, whether either of thefe propoiitions 

 are certainly true ; but only notice, that 

 they neither prove nor explain any thing : 

 For if omne 'vivum include vegetables as 

 well as animals, as certainly, according 

 to our author, it does ; then he might as 

 well have faid, Oimiia animalia et 'uegeta' 

 biiia ex ovis, et per confequens etiam vege- 

 tabilia : If vivum do not include vegeta- 

 bles, the confequence does not follow.' 

 The faire holds in the fecond, and feve- 

 ▼eral others of his aphorifms. 



50. In how many things foever plants 

 and animals may agree, certainly they do 

 not agree in every thing. " Ad fummum, 

 ** (fays Theophraftus) f non omnia fimi- 

 *' liter atque in animalibus accipi debent s 

 " Nam (in plantarum genere) vis undi- 

 ** que germinandi habetur ; quoniam et 

 *' undique animatum eft." And Malpi- 

 ghius Xf *' ^^ vegetantibus, ubi non eft 



** tantus 



• Fund. bot. § 132. — 150. 



•}• De hill. pi. I. c. I. 



X Anat. pi. p. 76. . ,f 



