ct 



Vll. 





">' k 



eans \ 



A \ 



111 



f-bea 



roivs 



ite. 



ns. 



fi to 



e 



otn the 



'^ great 



^aza. 



."is Were b 



eboth 



rowii 



niucli 



^ is faid to hav 

 :her fide a fou 



ve 



r 



50 as the 



year 



a. 







apples impre 

 bl e , i f w c con- 

 mb, and maj 

 different kinds 

 ■es and lemons^ 



; the mules of 



by kti 

 ;-hinum linan^r 



)ecies 



, many 



Is an e 



hybrid' 



ver^reen 







ers 



nnd a pel* 

 nd is hence t^- 



lift inclig^"^' 



po 



fed 



to 



have 



J an 

 rage 



d the i)i^' 



an^^' 



fbef^ 



Sect. VII. 2. 7 



REPRODUCTION. 



117 



There Is another vegetable fad pubhOied by M. Koelruter, which 

 he calls " a complete metamorphofis of one natural fpecies of pi 



mto another ;" which fhews, that in Teed 



embryon proceeds from the male parent 



fubfequent mature plant is in part dependent on the fern 



elruter impregnated a fl 



bud 



th 



though the form of the 



lie. M. Ko- 



the nlcotiana ruftica with the farina of 



paniculata, and obtained prolific feeds from 



With 



plants, which fprung from thefe feed 



he repeated the experiment 



mpregnating their piftilla with the farina of the nicotiana pan 

 As the mule plants, which he thus produced, were prolific 



h 



ed to impregnate them for many generations with 



the fa 



f 



the nicotiana pan 



and they became more and more 



ke th 



male parent, till he at length obtained fix plants in every refped per 

 feaiy fimilar to the nicotiana paniculata, and in no refped refembl' 

 their female parent the nicotiana n 



ft 



Blumenback on Gen 



lion. 



Mr. Graberg, Mr. Schreber, and Mr. Ramftrom, feem of opinion 

 that the internal ftrudure or parts of frudification in mule plants re 

 femble the female parent ; but that the habit or external ftrudure re 



fembl 



the 



m 



pa 



See treatifes und 



th 



above nanfes 111 



Vol. VJ. Amoenit. Acad 



, Somethins: fimilar 



/ 



this feems to obtain in mixing the breed 



f animals, and in animal mules, which may be 

 th the attention of the grazier. The mule produced from a horfe 



f the fame fp 



and a (he afs refembles the horfe externally with his ears, mane, and 

 tail ; but with the nature, or manners of an afs. But the hiniuis, 

 or creature produced from, a male afs and a mare, refembles the father 

 externally in ftature, afti-colour, and the black crofs on his (houlders, 

 but with the nature or manners of a horfe. The breed from Spanifh 

 rams and Swedilh ewes refembled the Spanifh fheep in wool, ftature, 



an 



d 



form ; but was as hardy as the Swedifh fheep 



d th 



^i^ 



ary occurred in the breeds which were produced from Swedifh 



rams 



