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regular parts of a flower. It has been doubted 
whether this part exifts in every flower, and 
certainly we find many deftitute of it, as a 
diftinct apparatus ; but if any part, wherein 
this fweet juice, called honey, is found, has 
a right to be termed a nectary, it may be 
decided, that there is no flower without it ; 
and that Linneus was of this opinion appears 
from his having named it, in the Syftem of 
Vegetables, as a conftant appendage of the 
corol, calling it the honey-bearing part pro- 
per to the flower, diftinguifliing it into two 
kinds, proper, when diftinct from th. r :tals 
and other parts, on the petals, when forming 
a part of the corol. It's not being, noticed in 
many of the genera may feem an objection to 
Linneus having confidered it as a conftant part 
of the fructification ; but he could not be ig- 
norant of it's exiftence in the compound flowers, 
the lower part of the florets, of which they 
confift, generally containing the juice in 
queftion, and yet he has not named it in any 
of the genera of the clafs united anthers 
(Syngenefia), except thofe of the order Mono- 
gam ia, or Ample flowers, which have fpur- 
form nectaries ; whence we may conclude he 
omitted it in all thofe genera, where it's 
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