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deprived of the ftaminlferous flowers, and 
the lafl: he feparated far from the female, 
and found, in all, that the fruit did not ri- 
pen. Camerarius, however, very fairly 
produces alfo, fome obje£tions againft the 
dodrine, founded on experiments, v/hich at 
this day have little weighty lince they v/ere 
made on plants of the Cryptogamous^ or Di- 
cecious clalTes j in the lafl: of which > it is 
now known, that fometimes a flower or two 
of a different fex, may be found intermixed 
with others. 
In 1703, Mr. Samuel Morland, de^ 
firous, as it fhould feem, of extending the 
Lewenhoekian fyftem of generation into the 
vegetable kingdom, produced a paper before 
the Royal Society^ in which he advances — - 
that the farina is a congeries of feminal 
plants, one of which mufl:. be conveyed 
through the ftyle into every ovum^ or feed, 
before it can become prolific. Mr. MoR- 
xand's hypothefis tended to confirm the 
general doctrine by exciting curiofity on. 
the fubjedt, at a time when Lewenbo^k'?^ 
theory was popular; but was not admiffible 
in itfelf, fmce few fl:yles are hollow, or, if 
Z 2 perceptibly 
