PHYSICAL AND LITERARY, ^it 



** beat :" If, what he calls a feed, really 

 takes root and grows (for I find not thac 

 cither he or Dillenius made the experi- 

 ment), it has a better claim to the cha- 

 rader of a gem, than of a feed. And, 

 whether or not, it is evident that the 

 " generatio mufcorum minime fit, medi- 

 *' ante poUinis antherarum illapfu fupra 

 " ftigmata nuda." 



54. The fame learned author * afferts, 

 *' Quod pulvis in capitulis mufcorum (it 

 *• pollen mafculum:" That the " femina 

 ** lycopodii officinarum funt purum pu- 

 ** tum pollen f " tho* others think them 

 all rather feeds. But, whether they are 

 cither, I fliall not, cannot determine : On- 

 ly they feem to refemble more the feed of 

 the lingua cervina i which has been found 

 fertile $, without the fcecundating influ- 

 ence of any antherae yet difcovered, that 

 I know of. But, granting the above ci- 

 ted aphorifm to be true in its largeft ex- 

 tent, it can never prove the alledged ufe 



of 



* p. 300. 



t P. 293- 



X Vid. U. ox. 3. 55J. 



