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the organization of vegetables, and had ob- 
fervedj that in whatfocver parts the flower 
might be deficient, the attire, (or Jlaminay 
and apices) is ever prefent, it is not ftrange 
that the true idea of its ufe fhould have 
been fuggefted to him* 
Dr. Grew laid his opinion before the 
Royal Society, in a ledure on the anatomy 
of flowers, read Nov. 6, 1676; in which 
he maintained, " That the primary and 
*^ chief ufe (of the duft of the apices^ is 
fuch as has refped: to the plant itfelf, 
and fo appears to be very great and ne- 
ceflfary: becaufe even thofe plants which 
have no flower, or foliature, are yet fome 
" way or other attired^ fo that it feems to 
" perform its fervice to the feed as the fo- 
liature to the fruit. In difcourfe hereof 
with our learned Savilian profeflbr. Sir 
"Thomas Millington, he told me, that 
*^ he conceived that the attire doth ferve 
as the male for the generation of the 
feed. I immediately replied, that I was 
" of the fame opinion, gave him fome rea- 
" fons for it, and anfwered fome objedions 
" that might oppofe them.'' He then ex- 
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