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Sect. VII. 2. i. 



REPRODUCTION. 



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4 



lateral mode of reproduflion, as is well obferved m an ingenious 

 work bja lady of very accurate botanic knowledge, called '^Botanic 

 Dialogues, defigned for the ufe of fchools,*' one volume o<Slavo 

 Johnfon, London ; but which may be ftrongly recommended to the 

 adult in botany as containing much ufeful information ao-reeably 

 imparted. 



This curious fubjc£l of lateral or folltary generation is well worthy 

 more accurate inveftigation, as it is the fimpleft, and was probably 

 the firft mode of reproduction which exifted ; and if any accurate 

 knowledge can ever be acquired of animal generation, it will poflibly 

 occur from a more nice attention to the production of the buds and 

 bulbs of vegetables ! which is further fpoken of in Sed. IX. 2 and 2, 

 At the fame time it muft be obferved, that the fexual reproduClion is 

 the chef d'ouvre, the mafter-piece of nature, as by the paternal 

 lateral reprodudion the fame fpecies only are propagated ad infinitum • 

 whereas by the fexual mode of reprodudion a countlefs variety of 

 animals are introduced into the world, and much pleafure is afforded 

 to thofe, which already exift in it. 



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II. 



SEXUAL PROGENY* 



I. We come now to the feminal mode of the production of veo-e 



tables, which originates from 



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 the congrefs of the male and female- 



parts of flowers, and may be therefore termed the fexual or amatorial 

 progeny of vegetation. 



From the accurate experiments and obfervations of Spallaiazani it 

 appears, that in the Spartium Junceum, ruih-broom, the very mi- 

 nute feeds were difcerned in the pod at leaft twenty days before the 



At 



flower is in full bloom ; that is, twenty days before fecundation, 

 this time alfo the powder of the anthers was viable, but c^luedfaft toi 

 their fummits. The feeds however at this time, and for ten' days- 

 after the bloffom had fallen off, appeared to confift of a gelatinous 



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