CHAPTER 25. 
perceptibly tubular, not pervious enough to 
admit particles of the ufual magnitude of 
the farina. 
After this time, feveral of the learned on 
the continent entered into refearches on this 
fubjeft. M. Geoffroy, in 171 1, in a 
paper read before the Royal Academy of Set-- 
ences^ after having formed a theory by con- 
ciliating Grew's and Morland's into 
one, concludes by alTerting — that the germ 
is never to be feen in the feed, till the fa- 
rina is fhed; and that if the plant is de- 
prived of the Jiaminay before this duft is 
fallen, the feed will either not ripen, or will 
not prove fertile. 
It is matter of furprize, that the illuf- 
trious TouRNEFORT fliould wholly rejedl 
the dodlrine of the fexes of plants. So far 
even from acknowledging this function of 
th^fa-rhia^ that he held it to be excremen- 
titious . See Ifagoge in Rem Herbariam^ p. 70 . 
Jidius PoNTEDERA, a flrenuous fol- 
lower of TouRNEFORT, a uoblc Italian of 
Pj/&, illuftrious for his know^ledge of the an- 
tient languages, and antiquities of Italy y and 
not lefs celebrated for botanical knowledge 
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