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imagined analogy between plants and a- 

 nimals, can warrant or excufe the fulfome 

 and obfcene names, impofed by the fexu- 

 alifts on the different parts of the frudi- 

 iication of vegetables ^ ? 



53,. Not a few other arguments againfl: 

 the modern dodlrine of the fexes of plants 

 might be brought from the flrudlure of 

 many compleat flowers, as well as from 

 the numerous tribes of fuch as are called 

 Icfs perfed ; fome of which produce feed, 

 but want flowers ; others have neither 

 flowers nor feed. For it requires more 

 than an ip/e dixit to prove, that *' omnis 

 *' fpecies vegetabilium flore et frudlu in- 

 *' ftruitur, etiam ubi vifus eafdem non 

 " affequitur," as Linnaeus afTerts f .' I 

 know he attempts to prove it thus X • 

 ** Mufcorum femina nos ; lemnae flores 

 ** delineati a Vallifnerio ; fucorum flores 

 " obfervavit Reaumur ; pilulariae flores 

 ** invelligavit B. Jufliaeus ; fungorum fta* 



"mina 



* Vi4 Cl. Linnsei fundamenta botanica, § 140. 143. 

 144. et I /,6> and the learned commentaiies on thefe, io 

 the Spoafalia plantarum, and Philofophia betanica* 



t Fund. bot. § 139. 



X Pbil. bot. p. S9. 



