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No stamen-males ascend, and breathe above, 



No seed-born offspring lives by female love. 



From each young tree, for future buds design'd 



Organic drops exsude beneath the rind; 



While these with appetencies nice invite, 



And those with apt propensities unite; 



New embryon fibrils round the trunk combine 



With quick embrace, and form the living line: 8O 



Whose plume and rootlet at their early birth 



Seek the dry air, or pierce the humid earth. 



" So safe in waves prolific Volvox dwells, 

 And five descendants crowd his lucid cells; 

 So the male Polypus parental swims, 

 And branching infants bristle allJiis limbs; 



and seems to require no light. Perhaps many other fungi are gener- 

 ated without seed by their roots only, and without light, and ap- 

 proach on the last account to animal nature. 



While these with appetencies, 1. 77. See Additional Note VIII. 



Prolific Volvox, 1. 83. The volvox globator dwells in the lakes of 

 Europe, is transparent, and bears within it children and grandchildren 

 to the fifth generation; Syst. Nat. 



The. male polypus. 1. 85. The Hydra viridis and fusca of Linneus 



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