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VI. Some Experiments concerning the Impreg- 
nation of the Seeds of Plants, by James 
Logan, Efo, Communicated in a Letter from 
him to Mr. Peter Collinfon, F. % S. 
‘Philadelphia, Nov. io, 1735’. 
SIR, 
. J 
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A S the Notion of a Male Seed, or the Farina 
Foecundans in Vegetables is now very com- 
mon, I fhall not trouble you with any Obferva- 
tions concerning it, but fuch as may have fome 
Tendency to what 1 have to mention 
And, firft, I find from Miller' s Dictionary, that 
M. Geoffroy , a Name I think of Repute amongft 
Ntituraliftsy from the Experiments he made on 
Mayze , was of Opinion, that Seeds may grow 
up to their full Size, and appear perfect to the 
Eye, without being impregnated by the Farina , 
which poffibly, for ought I know, may in fome 
Cafes be true ; for there is no End of Varieties in 
Nature : But in the Subject he has mention’d 
I have Reafon to believe it’s other wife, and that he 
applied not all the Care that was requifite in the 
Management. 
When I firft met with the Notion of this Male 
Seed, it was in the Winter Time, when I could 
do 
