Zo6 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



** cipium vitale, at vita nequaquam ; fo- 

 *' boles autem vivit, prlmo quidem juxta 

 *' parentem, ut ejus germen, pollea vero 

 *' perfeipfum, propriis radicibus ex terra 

 ** humorem trahens ;" Cselalp de plantis*: 

 And Malpigbius f , " Gemmae funt velut 

 *' infans, leu foetus ita cufloditus, ut fuo 

 *' tempore aatflus, in furcuium excrefcens, 

 ** tandem ova promat. Erit igitur pro- 

 ** babiliter fcmen quafi gemma pendula et 

 ** decidua, allenogerminaturalolo." And 

 although the learned Petrus Lolling, in 

 his treatife called Gemm£ Arborum :}:, or ra- 

 fiber the publillier himfelf, is pleafed to 

 fity, *• qui gemmam fibi reprefentant ut 

 " alterum femen, fallunt et falluntur j| j" 

 yet his defcription of a gemma feems not 

 altogether to agree with this notandum : 

 For § he fays, " Gemma eft pars plantae 

 *' radici inlidens, quae occukat fquamis, 

 " folicrum rudimentis, embryonem futu- 



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* Lib. I. c. 5. 



f Anst. Plant, p. 39. 77. 



\ Amaen. Acad. 2. p. 182. 224. 



\ Po 185- "^"^'^ ^' 



§ P. 185 



