308 LECTURE VII. 



seeming connection appear. Still, how- 

 ever, it produces on the mind effects simi- 

 lar to those which are derived from view- 

 ing a highly finished picture, wherein the 

 shades and variety of light and colour are 

 so softened down and blended together, 

 that it is difficult to say where the one ends 

 or the other begins. 



In examining the sexual organs of vege- 

 tables, we find the males and females in 

 general included in the same flower, and 

 sometimes so arranged, that the pollen of 

 the males is likely to fall upon the stigmata 

 of the females, both of which circum- 

 stances seem calculated to ensure fecunda- 

 tion. Yet, in other instances, we find the 

 male organs in one flower, and the females 

 in another of the same plant. Again, in 

 other instances, the male and female flow- 

 ers are on different plants, so that the 

 process of fecundation is left to be effected 

 by the sport of winds, or the occupation 

 of the bee, which havinoj collected the 

 pollen, or bee bread, from the male flower, 

 transports it beneath his hairy thighs to 



