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" The Stamen males, with appetencies just, 

 Produce a formative prolific dust; 

 With apt propensities, the Styles recluse 

 Secrete a formative prolific juice; 

 These in the pericarp erewhile arrive, 

 Rush to each other, and embrace alive. 

 Form'd by new powers progressive parts succeed, 

 Join in one whole, and swell into a seed. 



" So in fond swarms the living Anthers shine 

 Of bright Vallisner on the wavy Rhine; 280 



With appetencies just, 1. 271. As in the productions by chemical 

 affinity one set of particles must possess the power of attraction, and 

 the other the aptitude to be attracted, as when iron approaches a 

 magnet; so when animal particles unite, whether in digestion or 

 reproduction, some of them must possess an appetite to unite, and 

 others a propensity to be united. The former of these are secreted 

 by the anthers from the vegetable blood, and the latter by the styles 

 or pericarp; see the Additional Note VIII. on Reproduction. 



Of bright Vallisner, 1. 280. Vallisneria, of the class of dioecia. The 

 flowers of the male plant are produced under water, and as soon as 

 their farina or dust is mature, they detach themselves from the plant, 

 rise to the surface and continue to flourish, and are wafted by the 

 air or borne by the current to the female flowers. In this they 

 resemble those tribes of insects, where the males at certain seasons 



