344 CHAPTER 25, 
tion. To which may be added, the wri-? 
tings of KoELRUTER, in the fucceeding 
year, which have not a Uttle tended to 
confirm the fubjedt in queftion. 
It would be unjuft to the memory of Dr. 
Grew, to conclude this hiftory, without 
remarking, that the refult of the lateft, and 
bell; experiments, have confirmed his idea, 
that the farina itfelf is not carried to the 
rudime?2t of the feed," but, that foecun- 
dation is effedled by the efHuvia. This 
will appear, by citing the fummary view 
of the dodrine, as exhibited by Linn^us 
himfelf, in the DilTertation above inen- 
tioned. 
«f While plants are in flower, the pollen 
falls from the anther c^y and is difperfed 
abroad. At the fame time that xhc pollen 
" is fcattered, the jiigma is then in its • 
higheft vigour, and for a portion of the 
*^ day at leaft is moiftened with a fine dew. 
" The pollen eafily finds accefs to the jtig* 
-ma^ where it not only adheres by means 
of the dew of the part, but the moifture 
occafions its burfting, by which means 
its contents are difcharged. What iffued 
from 
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