of Vegetables. 65 



pilte at the Head, each with an 

 Aperture proportioned to the Size of 

 the Globules of Farina; its Canals, 

 &c. appropriated in the exacted and 

 niceft Manner for conveying the im- 

 pregnating Subftance of the Farina 

 to the Uterus, or Ovary, together 

 with the microfcopical Obfervations 

 of the Embryo-Seed before and after 

 Impregnation, all concur to place 

 this Sentiment in fo ftrong a Light, 

 and exprefs the ftrict Analogy, that 

 admirable Uniformity, which Nature 

 fcems to affect in the Means it makes 

 life of to attain fimilar Ends, that 

 few Syftems carry with them more 

 feeming Charadterifticks of Truth. 



To illuftrate therefore this whole 

 Syftem, as far as I imagine my pre T 

 fent Difcoveries have carried it, I 

 have chofen the common Lily, and 

 annexed Drawings firft of the whole 

 Apparatus contained in the Calix, Plate v. 

 whereby the Stamina with their A- F & u 

 pices, Uterus, Piftil, &c. are exhi- 

 bited, juft as they were copied from 

 Nature without the Help of the 

 Microfcope; next of one of the Papilla, plate y 

 containing a Globule of Farina as it Fig, 2. 



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