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Author adds concerning the Stamina^ and what I always experienced 
in my Plant, it is probable he meant the laft of thefe. 
The accurate Malpighi has not fuffered this part of Flowers to pafs 
unobferved, tho’ as "tis evident from many other Places of his excel- 
lent Anatomy of Plants, Cafalpinus may perhaps, have led him to 
the Confideration of it : Mirabile eft^ fays he, quod natura qttaji 
conchas in forum foliis excitavit quihits mel cufodirety it a in Corona 
Imperially Lilio '^erfico & Ranunculo miramur. In hujus interiors 
parte non longe ab implant at tone ^ concha rotunda obfervatury qu£. 
melleo diaphanoq, femiconereto fucco repletuVy hanc mire cooperit vela- 
brum. In Corona Imperiali fovea h£c exterius labro AmbitUTy ^ deor- 
fum penduU Semifpberica appendttur gutta. 
Interdum dubitavi an tenuis quadam adfit membranula contentum 
icorem coercenSy ne deorfum ejfuaty applicato tamen digiti extremOy a 
forvea rapitury ficut accidit in reliquis aqua dtr fluidorum guttulis qu/e 
fufpenfa pendent : Hinc meditari poJJ'umus melleam hanc fubjiantiam 
non exterius advenirey fed ex fucco intimitis cencoHo hujus modi con- 
geri materiam. 
In digit all par iter prope imhilicum mellece fubflantia aliquot gut tie 
recolliguntur. 
That Malpighi here, means the fame Liquor with CafalpinuSy is 
apparent, both from the Qualities he aferibes to it, and the way he 
fuppofes it to be produced, and although according to the Method he 
follows in the Anatomy of all the Parts of Plants, he has given ex- 
amples of it but in three different Flowers j yet he is of Opinion, that 
it generally belongs to all. 
The Place he affigns to it in the ^igitaliSy and which, no doubt,' 
he thought common to that with a great many other Plants, is the 
fame with that obferved by Cafalpinus i for what Malpighi terms 
prope floris umbilicumy an Expreflion frequently to be met with in 
him, can mean nothing elfc than the floris concamer at io of the other. 
But ncverthelefs, to the Pha:nomena of this Liquor, taken notice 
oi by CafalpinuSy he has added two more? the firh, that it is Tran- 
fparent, and the fccond, that it is lodged in many Flowers, in a 
Concha or Fovea, i. e. a round or oblong Cavity, near the Origin of 
the Retala i and from whence perhaps, it flows out over all the 
Surface of the Calix. This Receptacle I am apt to think, is not al- 
ways to be plainly difeovered by the naked Eye, and as I have not 
as yet, viewed any Part of my Lilly through a Microfeope, I canr 
not determine whether it be found there or not. 
Ciejalpinus 
