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Sect. VII. 2. 4. 



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But as the ne6:ary is found equally general in male flowers as in fe- 



•male ones, and as the young embryon, or feed, grows before the 



petals and ne6lary are expanded, and after they fall off; thefe feem 



to be infurmountable objedlions 



nions. 



In many 'tribes of infe6ls, as the filk-worra, and perhaps in all th 



moths and butterflies, the male and female parents die, as foon as th 



to both the above-mentioned 



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mpregnated and excluded, th 



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to be 



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feded and hatched at fome future time. The fame thing happens to 



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the male and female parts of flowers ; the anthers and filaments, 



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which conftitute the male parts of the flower, and the fligma and 

 ■ftyle, which conflitute the fenfitive or amatorial organ of the female 



part of the flower, fall ofFandd 



foon as the feeds are imp 



nated 



d along with thefe the petals and nedary. Now the m 



and butterflies above mentioned, as foon as they acquire the pailion 

 and the apparatus for the reprodu£lion of their fpecies, lofe the power 

 of feeding upon leaves, as they did before, and become .nouriihed by 

 what ? — by honey alone. 



the ne£lary, or 



Hence we acquire a ftrong analogy for the ufe of 



fecretion of honey 



th 



ble economy ; which is, th 



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male parts of flowers, and the female parts, as foon as they leave thei 

 fetus-flate, expanding their petals, (which conflitute their lungsj be 

 come fenfible to the paffion, and gain the apparatus, for the repro 



dudlion of their fp 



and are fed and nourifhed with honey like 



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feds above defcribed ; and that h 



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edary be 



office of producing honey 



d d 



or 



fes to produce honey 



the fame time with the birth and death of the anthers and the ftig 



mas 



which, whether exifting in the fame or in different flowers 



feparate and diflind animated bei 



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to th 



time the anthers with their filam 



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f^igmas with their flyles, are in 



their fetus-flate fuftained in fome 



plants .by their umbilical veflels, like the unexpanded leaf-buds, as in 



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