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$nA has a fufficiency to provide for it (elf, and grow 
when expoied on the bare ground, and then it is no lon- 
ger kept up. I lay, if we confider thefe two Methods of 
Nature, we fball not find any other difference between 
Plants and Animals, than that the firft wanting a lo- 
comotive Power, cannot couple as Animals do, and 
therefore muft contain in the (ame Individual, not only 
the Origine of the future Plants which I compared to the 
Animalcule in the Male Sperm, but alfo the maternal 
Nourifhment fiifficient for it till it is furnilh'd with a 
Root to provide for it (elf. This Nourifliment is a fort 
of Flour which encompaffes xh&Embrh Plant, and in 
the Seed makes the two Lobes. 
If we compare tlmn with Birds, we (hall find that as 
in Birds which are Male and Female, it is neceflary for 
the Animalcule of the Male already endowed with a 
living Soul to be placed near the Yelk of the Egg of the 
Female, to be thence Co long nourifli'd till it is fit to re- 
ceive its food from the Mother, or gather it off the 
Ground So in Plants the Emlrio is placed next to a 
fort of Fine Flour which I compare to the Yelk of the 
Egg, which not only defends the young Plant, but like- 
wile affords it its firft Aliment. 
We may likewife compare the Propagation of Trees 
with Fijh, and find the fame Agreement. In fine, the 
Egg in Animals feems to be for the fameufe as the Lobes 
of the Seed in Plants. 
Although I have formerly aflerted, that the Female 
ferved only to afford nourifhment to the Animalcules of 
the Hale Sperm, and that Plants grow out of the fub- 
ftance wherewith they are watered ; yet I acknowledge 
for a certain Truth, that a great Variety is caufed in 
Animals by the Nourifhment received from the Mother. 
So by a Horfe and She-Alfea Mule is generated, which is 
like neither, but participates of both, differing from the 
Horfe, efpecially in the Ears and Tail ; fince the A(s 
abounding 
