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furprife he found many new fpecies of beans ; thofe from the maza- 

 gan were mottled black and white ; the whlte-blolToms were browii 

 and yellow inftead of their natural black ; and they were both much 

 larger than ufual. See Sed, XVI. 4. of this work. 



There is an apple defcribed in Bradley's work, which is faid to have 

 one fide of it a fweet fruit, which boils foft, and the other fide a four 

 fruit, which boils hard. This Mr. Bradley fo long ago as the yeac 

 ^21 ingenioufly afcribes to the farina of one of thefe apples impreo-- 



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nating the other j which would feem the more probable,, if we con- 

 fider, that each divifion of an apple is a feparate womb, and may 

 therefore have a feparate impregnation, like puppies of different kinds 

 in one litter. The fame is faid to have occurred in orano;es and lemons, 

 and grapes of different colours, 



Ve2:etable mules are faid to be numerous, and, like the mules of 

 the animal kingdom, not always to continue their fpecies by feed- 

 There is an account of a curious mule from the antirrhinum linaria,, 

 toad-flax, in the Amoenit. Academ. V. I. No. 3.. and many hybrid! 

 plants are defcribed in No., 32, The urtica alienata is an evergreen^ 

 plant, which appears to be a nettle from the male flowers, and a pel- 

 litory (parietaria) from the female ones and the fruit, and is hence be- 

 tween both. Murray, Syft. Veg. Amonft the Englifh indigenous^ 



plants, the veronica hybryda, mule fpeedwell, is fuppofed to have 

 originated from the officinal one, and the fplked one ; and the Sib- 

 thorpia Europasa to have for its parents the golden faxifrage and marfli 

 pennywort.. Pulteney's View of Linneus, p. 253^ 



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