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placed at regular diftances from each other/ and 
.connected by a thread. The two chains are fo clofe 
to each other, that the bodies touch one another in 
pairs, the whole making . a regular figure. After 
comprefling one of thefe hairs between the talks, 
the two chains feemed to have twifted round each 
other, and to exhibit an appearance fomewhat re- 
fembling the cable of a fliip. Of the ufe of thefe 
hairs in the male flowers, we could form no con- 
jedtures. The figures of them will be found amongfl: 
the drawing (Figures 37, 38.) 
Explanation of the Figures in Tab. VIII. and 
Tab. IX. 
' N. B. The generic and fpecific names here ufed 
are the Linnaean.The numbers in the column 
on the right hand fhew how many times the 
objedf was magnified in diameter. 
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Fig. I. A grain of the pollen of Hibifcus 
Syriacus, 5^2 
2. Thefame, with the impregnating cor- 
pufcles forced out by comprefling 
the talks, 512 
* 3. Some of the fame corpufcles feparate 
from the grain, and more extend- 
ed in length, which was fuppofed 
to arife from their adhefion to ono 
. - another, tho’ the divifion was not 
perceptible, ' 5^^ 
3 
4. Grains 
