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these other terminate into the minute grains, com- 

 monly called the farina foecumlans : each grain grow- 

 ing on its own pedicle, just as the leaves or fruits of 

 trees. 



See an animal exactly in the same manner, tin- 

 folding itself by degrees, till its parts are explicated 

 entirely, and it is complete in every organ. Then, 

 and not before, each female is capable of producing 

 eggs, each being a continuation of the general or- 

 ganization, and growing upon its own pedicle. Each 

 male likewise, when at its state of perfection, is 

 capable of producing from itself the fecundating 

 matter, necessary for the propagation of the species* 



Let us again view a full grown tree or plant, put- 

 ting forth its parts for fructification. Observe the 

 apices on the stamina, loaded with the globules of 

 the farina fcecundans, the pulp of each globule con- 

 taining an exalted fluid, and conveying it to one of 

 the papillae of the pistil. The utricle is now filled 

 with green soft seeds, ready to be impregnated by 

 the globule, and containing a fluid, which afterward 

 becomes a hard covering to each. And within this 

 the little organization gradually increases. 

 . As then a refined fluid from the seminal matter of 

 the male, impregnates the organization in the egg of 

 a female animal, mingles with the subtle fluids con- 

 tained therein, and promotes its growth and progress 

 o the refined part of the pulpy iluid contained in 

 the globule, impregnates the organization in the 

 seed of a plant, mixes with its juices, and gradually 

 promotes its growth into a perfect plant. And 

 doubtless both the impregnating effluvia of animals 

 arid vegetables, and the innate juices of the orga- 

 nization, have qualities peculiar to themselves, heace 

 the offspring of a black and a white patent, is of a 

 colour between both. And thus if the farina of one 

 sort of flower impregnate the egg of another, he 

 colour. of the flower produced thereby is variegated 

 proportionably. 



The juices imbibed by a plant, being composed of 



