12 ON BUEEDING AND RAISING VEGETABLES. 



" should place them in the figure, b is the 

 *' mouth of the pistilium, or passage, which leads 

 " to the uterus c, in which are these ovaries 

 " filled with little eggs, or the rudiments of seeds, 

 " such as we find in the ovaria of animals : but 

 " these eggs will decay and come to nothing, 

 " unless they are impregnated by the farina fe- 

 " cundans, or male seed of the same plant, or 

 " one of the same sort. 



"From d to e is the stamen of the lily, 

 " through which the male seed of the plant is 

 "conveyed, to be perfected in the apex f; 

 " where by the sun's heat it ripens, and bursts 

 " forth in very minute particles like dust ; some 

 " particles of which powder falling upon the 

 " orifice b, is either conveyed from thence into 

 " the vesicle c, or by its magnetic virtue draws 

 " the nourishment with great force from the 

 " other parts of the plant into the embryos of 

 " the fruit, and makes them swell. 



" Now that the farina fecundans, or male dust, 

 " has a magnetic virtue, is evident, for it is that 

 " only which bees gather and lodge in the cavi- 

 " ties of their hind legs to make their wax with ; 

 * and it is well known, that wax when it is warm 

 " will attract to it any light body." 



Whatever may be thought of magnetic power, 

 the wise providence of nature is here wonder- 



