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" mina defcripfit Michelius." And this 

 is all, and affords but a lame proof, and 

 moflly conjedlural. 



Thus, although Dillenius *, in the end 

 of a particular defcription of the felago 

 jfo/iis et facie abietis R. fyn p. ro6. or 

 upright fir-mofs, fays, " Pliira non ob- 

 ** fervavi, nee feminainhis vel calycibus, 

 *' vel foliis bradleatis invenire potui :" 

 Yet, becaufe he adds, '' Sufpicor autem 

 *' bra<5leas illas folia feminalia t^z^ ct no- 

 ** varum plantarum produdlioni infervi- 

 " re ;" the learned author of the femina 

 mufcorum j* pofitively concludes, ** Hae 

 ** foliola, tempore autumnali matura de- 

 ** cidunt a calyce perfiftente, et novam 

 *• plantam propagant, radiculas e baC cx- 

 ** ferentia." But, fince below % ^c owns, 

 that " Semina mufcorum tanquam nuda 

 •* corcula, fine cotyledonibus, fine tu- 

 *' nicis animo concipienda funt. — Flos 

 *' autem obfcure nobis percipitur, cum 

 ** nullum ftylum, nuUumque ftigma ha- 



•* beat, 



* Hift. Mufc, p. 437. 



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