10. 



VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



forminf^ from the bud-leaves tlie Brakes of the next year, 

 thr- Calyx of the following one,, the. Cord of that fucceeding it, 

 the 5r./;;2-.>2i-ofthe fourth, und Pi/ill of the fifth ; which is 

 fille4 with the granulated Medulla of the Seed, the termina- 

 tion of vegetable life. 



25, FLORESCENCE exhibits the Efpoufals of Plants in the Flower, 

 and tficir * A^vj^i'/.^/^ in the Anthefis. 



Tlie Flo7/er, the unclad Larva of the Herb, comes forth 

 from the difplayed, internal plant, naked and perfed, like 

 the above mentioned flying InfeSi : Wing]heathed in refpeft to 

 the Calyx, JFingd in refped to the Corol, confiding alone 

 of the Dr^^wj of Reprodu6lion : Lithe Males the ftamens 

 have their Anthers replete with the Prolific Powder contain- 

 in!? the vivifying Fovilla: In the Females the Piftils have their 

 Ovarium terminated with a tubular and moljl Stlg?na, 



The An THE SIS takes place, when the burfl Anthers fcatter their 

 bao-s of Z)///? upon the Stigma^ when this duft gives out 

 the' included male Fovilla^ to be abforbed by the prolific 

 Lymph of the Stigma ; fo that the male corporeal part and the 

 Female medullary one, produces the feed, or Egg, which is 

 nourifhed in the Ovary to its due maturity. 



26. The PRINCIPLE of Fru61:ification, the Foundation of Botany, 

 fhouid be traced higher. 

 Problem : we may fuppofe God at the beginning to have pro- 

 ceded from fimple to compound, from few to many I and 

 therefore at the beginning of Vegetation to have created juft 

 fo many different plants, as there are Natural Orders. That 

 He then fo interm.ixed the plants of thefe orders by their 

 marriages v/ith each other ; that as many plants were pro- 

 duced as there are now d'frindt Genera. That Nature then 

 intermixed thefe Generic plants, by reciprocal marriages, 

 (which did not change the ltru£lure of the flower) and mul- 

 tiplied them into all poffible exifting Species ; excluding how- 

 ever from the number of Species, the Mule-plants produced 

 from thefe marriages, as being barren. 

 Each Genus therefore is natural. Nature afienting to it, if not 

 jnaking it. 



The 



Sponfalia plantarum. Aman, acad. I. n, is. 



