of Vegetables. 



mife, that fomething of that Nature 

 may be neceffary not only by way 

 of Menftruum, but alfo as a Vehicle, 

 is, that having applied in great A- 

 bundance the Farina of one Species 

 of Flower to the Piftils of another, 

 before the Seed had been impreg- 

 nated, which I took care to pre- 

 vent by depriving it of its own Sta- 

 mina, this with a Defign of disco- 

 vering whether the Farina of one 

 would ferve to impregnate the Seeds 

 of another, at leaft in thofe Species 

 that differ but little in Size and 

 other Circumftances, the Confequence 

 was, that I found the Heads of 

 the Piftils had ex fuded in the 

 Night Time fo great a Quantity 

 of Juice, that it hung in a large 

 Drop of a yellow Caft, tinctured, 

 as I fuppofe, by the Abundance of 

 Farina which I had applied \ whereas 

 the Heads of thofe Piftils, tho' of 

 the fame Species, to which no Fa- 

 F 4 rina 



fo jujl as I at fir ft imagined; for I have fines, 

 applied to the Pijiil of the Lily its ozvn Farina 

 in great Abundance without any fuch Efifetl : The 

 Phenomenon bo<we<ver dejerves to be taken Notice 

 of 9 and arofe from the Application of the Farina 

 of a Species of red Flag-flower to it, inftead of 



