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ORGANS 



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Sect. VII. 2. 



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ranium, which have half their ftamina unterminated by anthers, and 



fequence produce no prohfic fa 



And fecondly, from the 



florets, which form the rays of the flowers of the order frull: 

 polygamy of the clafs fy ngenefi 



the fun -flow 



hich are fur 



ni(hed with a ftyle only, and no ftigma, and are thence barren. Th 

 alfo a ftyle without a fligma in the whole order of dioecia gyi 



d 



the male flowers of which are thence barren, and fhew: 

 ffity of the exiftence of the ftigma to the fecundation of th 



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"■etable uterus, probably owing to its amatorlal aiflion in conveyin 

 the living principle to the included feeds hke the fallopian tubes of 

 the animal womb. 



5. The feeds are produced in the pericarp, and at firft acquire nu- 

 triment by the umbilical veflels previous to their fecundation, like the 

 unexpanded leaf-buds ; and then by the caudex down the bark with 

 its radicles, which is oxygenated by the brades, or floral-leaves, as 

 foon as thefe are expanded, they afterwards become in one day im- 

 pregnated in fome flowers, as in the Oenothera, ca£lus grandiflorus, 

 and ciftus ; and the corol or petals, with the ftamens and ftigmas, and 

 nedlaries, wither and fall off. In other flowers many days elapfe be- 

 fore the various cells of feeds are fecundated, and thefe more ani- 

 mated parts of fexual reprodudion perifli. But in all cafes the feeds 

 remain in the pericarp or uterus after fecundation as before it, except 

 in thofe plants, which are called proliferus, as the polygonum vivi- 



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which immediately be 



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g, as in 



in all other plants the feed either fleeps till the enfuing 

 the colchicum and hamamelis ; or they continue to grow to maturity, 

 and to be nourifhed in the pericarp by the blood of the parent flower- 

 bud, which is oxygenated in the brades or floral-leaves, till they be- 

 come perfeded like eggs, and fall on the ground, or are otherwifc 

 Idifperfed, for the purpofe of taking root in the earth. 



Whence it appears, that in the fexual reprodudion of vegetables 



the amatorial organ is diftind: from the uterus, as is probably the cafe 



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