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menta Botanica *, and farther explained and illuf- 
trated in his Philofophia Botanica +, are fo clear, 
that the Birth of Animals is not more evidently 
the Confequence of an Intercourfe between the 
Sexes,’ than that of Vegetables; and it would 
be now as ridiculous for any one, who has 
looked at the Arguments, to doubt of the one 
as of the other. 
We hall not attempt to lay all thefe Proofs 
before the Reader; our Bufinefs is to explain, 
not demonftrate; but as it may be fatisfa¢tory to 
fee fome one Fact eftablithed, that carries con- 
viétion with it, we fhall here give an Extra¢tof 
a Letter from Berlin, inferted in the Philofophical 
Tranfattions {, concerning a remarkable Experj- 
ment made on the Palm-Tree. 
‘Extra® of Mr. Mylius’s Letter to Mr. Watfon, 
dated at Berlin, Feb. 20, 1750—51. 
«© The Sex of Plants is very well confirmed, 
« by an Experiment that has been made here on 
‘© the Palma major foliis flabelliformibus. ‘There 
* Aphorifm 132 to 150. 
+ Page 86 to 96. 
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