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Anatomy of Plants *. After this, Camerarius, More- 
land, Geoffroy, Vaillant, Blair, Fuffieu, and Bradley, 
purfued their Enquiries and Experiments fo far 
as to remove all Doubt concerning thefe Difco- 
veries; and, laftly, Doctor Linnaeus founded 
thereon the Syftem of Botany, which we are 
going to explain in this Work. 
The Sexual Hypothefis, on its firft Appear- 
ance, was received with all that Caution that be- 
comes an enlightened Age; and Nature was 
traced experimentally through all her Variations, 
before it was univerfally affented to. Tournefort 
refufed to give it any Place in his Syftem; and 
Pontedera, though he had examined it, treated it 
as chimerical; but the Proofs which Dr. Linnaeus 
has ftated among ft the Aphorifms of his Funda- 
* Publified in the Year 1682. The DoGtor expreffes 
himfelf thus: —** In Difcourfe hereof with our learned 
“© Savilian Profeflor, Sir Thomas Millington, he told me, 
“© he conceived that the Attire doth ferve as the Male, 
“© for the Generation of the Seed. I immediately re- 
*¢ plied, that I was of the fame Opinion, and gave 
‘© him fome Reafons for it, and anfwered fome Ob- 
« jeGtions which might oppofe them, Ge.” Anat. of 
Plants, 171. 
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