( y 
Apices Semimfomes^ which grow at the top of tht Stamina) 
doth fome waf perform the office of Male Sperm. But 
herein! think he falls (hort, in that he fuppofts them only 
to drop upon the outfide or the Dterns or Vafculum Semu 
mk, and to impregnate the included Seed by fome fpiri- 
tuous emanations or energetical Imprefs» 
That which is now fubjeftcd to the dirquifitions and 
cenfureof fuch whofc cxquifite skill doth conftitutc them 
Judges of fuch Performances, is whether it be not more - 
proper to fu ppofe that the Seeds which come up in their 
proper Invokcra^ arc at firft like unimprcgnated Ovd of 
Animals ^ That this Farina is a Congeries of Seminal Plants, 
one of which muft be convcy'd into every Ovum before 
it can become prolifick 5 Thzt t\it Stylus m Mv Ray%\m^ - 
guage, the upper part of the PifiiUum in Mr Tourneforf^^ , 
is a Tube defign'd to convey thefc Seminal Plants into their 
Neft in the Oua ^ That there is fo vaft a provifion made^ 
becauft of the odds there arc, whether ©ne of fo many 
ftiall ever find its way into, €nd through fo narrow a Con- - 
veyancc. 
To make this fuppofition the more credible, I fhall lay 
down the Obfervations I have made upon the (ituation of 
thefe Stamina and the Stylm in fome few fpecics ^of Plants. 
Firft, in the Corona Imperialism where the Uterus or Vdf- 
culum fiminale oi the Plant fliands upon the Center of the 
Flower 5 and from the top of this arifeth the Stylus^ the 
FafcnlHm S$minale and iS^y/?^/ together reprefenting a Pijiili^ - 
lum. Rbund this are planted fix Stamina^ upon the ends 
of each of thefe are Apices io artfully fixt that they turn 
every way with the ^eafl Wind, being in heighth almofl 
exaftly equal to the Stylus zhom. which they play, and 
which in this Plant is manifeftly open at the top, as it is 
hollow all the way. To which we muft add, that upon 
the top of the Stylus there is a fort of Tnft^ confifting of 
pinguid Villi^ which I imagin to be plac'd there, to catch 
and detain the Frnna as it flyes out uf its Thica- From 
hence^ 
