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vu. 



2. 



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dati 



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^s has be 



hich 



eti 



Were at 



^vhich i 



rs 



It 



•^e Surface of 

 ^> which ex- 



owersofthc 

 leir farina, or 



:, and rife to 



air, or borne 

 mbling thofe 



re wings, but 

 umata, licha- 

 :d from Lin- 



njured In wet 



.thers, 



w 



:• h ich 



n the ground. 



nperfeaiono^ 



lly been 



atlona 



> 



thew 



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the ail*' 



and the 



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Sect. VII. 2. 3,4 



REPRODUCTION, 



109 



femen into the water, where it forms a whiti(h cloud, which 



is af- 



ds received by th 



fwoUeii 



of the femal 



comes impre 



ated. ' Nor is this vegetable impregnati 



d fhe be- 



v^'ater 



ther animal impre 



) 



the fpawn of frogs and 

 is fecundated; and its 



of fifh is delivered from the female before it is ^ ^ , 



fecundation is feen to fucceed in water ; and Spallanzani found, that 



the feminal fluid 

 lific 



of do 



o 



well as of fro 



& 



ed its pro 



Bonnet's CEuvres Phi 



: quality when diluted with much water. 



lof. in a letter to Spallanzani. 



^. The other parts, which rife on the edge of the pericarp, and 



pand themfel 



before the impregnation of the feed 



the corol 



and nedaries. The former of thefe has been (hewn to be a refpiratory 

 orcran for the purpofe of oxygenating the blood to a greater degree 

 than in the green foliage, as it is there expofed to the air beneath a 



^ - ■ See Sea. IV. 5. i. to 



the corol in helleborus niger, Chrift- 



i. lof- 



finer pellicle, and acquires variety of 



which may be added, that as 



mas rofe, changes after the fecundation of the feed into a caly 



incr its white colour, and becoming green. So in many flowers the 

 catyx falls off along with the corol ; in thefe it fliould be efteemed a 

 part of or appendage to the corol ; whereas thofe calyxes, which are 

 permanent after the corol falls off, are properly parts of the pericarp 



vegetabl 



4. The nedary, or honey-cup 



evidently an append 



th 



ti'd is the refervoir of the honey, which is fecreted by an ap 

 propr'iate gland from the blood after its oxygenation in the corol, a 

 mentioned in Sedt. IV. 5. 5. and is abforbed for nutriment by th 



fexual parts of the fl 



This purpofe however has as yet efcaped 



th 



fearches of philofophical botanift 



M. PontedcTft bel 



defigned to lubricate the vegetable uterus. (Antholog. p. 49.) Others 

 have fuppofed, that the honey, when reabforbed, might ferve the pur- 



pofe of the liquor amnii 



white of an egg, as a nutriment for th 



young 



mbry 



or fecundated feed, in its early ilate of exifte 



But 



