$o8 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



** ex femine et gemma efle coevas ^ ; and 

 ** gemmas, proinde ac femina, in fe con- 

 ** tinere primordium plantae t ;" it comes 

 to the fame thing for our purpofe. For, 



52 1 F gems contain the prlmordia pLm^ 

 tarunii they contain the mod effential 

 part of feeds ; becaufe the feminis ejfentia 

 con fi flit in corculo % \ and the corculam is 

 nothing but the novae plantae primordi" 

 vm Ij. Now, fince buds or gems are co- 

 pioufly produced by numberlefs plants, 

 and often break out of the fmoothert pare 

 of the bark, efpecially of pruned trees ; 

 and, fince the fmalleft part of a plant may 

 be made to grow and emit gems, whether 

 it be naturally fertile or barren, male, fe- 

 jjiale, or hermaphrodite, does it not clear- 

 ly follow, chat neither difference of fex, 

 por illapjtis pollinis anther arum fupraJUg" 

 mata nuda^ are neceffary to the produc 

 tion of the primordia plantarum, the elTence 

 of leeds, 4s well ^s of gem^ ; and that no 



imagine4 



* Phil, Bor, p 88. 

 ■ f Gem. arb. Amaen. acad. 2. p. i85t 



J Phil hot. p, 56. 



II ibid. p. 54. 



