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Much Icfs can this Receptaculmn be the' ‘Dilatata RetioU fub- 
pjlantidi for befidcs the Reafons already mentioned, Malpighi makes 
the Stylus, as well as Stamina, arife from that Subftance, and by his 
1 igure it is plain, he means either what Botanifts term the Calix 
br Cup of the Flower, as diftinguilhed from the Rerianthiumj or 
clfe the Vafculum Seminale. 
Had Malpighi ever confidered this part of the Flower as diftinfl 
from the reft, it would moft probably have been in the Amygda^ 
Ins, the Figure of which this Author has borrowed from him to 
reprefent one kind of his Receptacula-, but what he calls by that 
Name, Malpighi terms only hians Calycis fubfiantia. 
Thus far concerning the Receptaculum. As for the Liquor found 
upon it Rontedera tells us, Hie fticcus qui in omnibus fere floribus 
reperitiir, tpy quo plurima infeSta Vi£iitant apefque Mellificant , eji 
ille liquor qui e receptaculo manat, & circa Embry onem colligitur 
eumque mollem fervat inungit, quo facilius Embryonis partes ex~ 
plicentur atque difl endantur . Cum autern hie fuccus dulcis faporis 
Jit, idcirco ab infeliis avidius expetitur •, Embryo autem hoc liquore 
privatus aere folaribus radiis exJiccaUir, & ftepe Jine fruBu conta-’ 
befeit. Ail this our Author illuftrates by feveral Examples, but I 
need only rake notice of what he has obferved concerning the Big- 
nonia Americana Jiliqua breviore Tournef. Inter fores ^ recepta- 
culum, fays he, Similiter inter receptaculum ^ Embryonem dulcis 
colligitur fuccus, qui ex hiantibus receptaculi utriculis effunditur, re- 
ceptaculnm fucco refertum apparet & turgidum. Id circo cum neque 
receptaculum neque fruHus pufillus, tantam liquoris copiam, quanta 
a tanto fore defeendit, continere vale ant, fit in tranfverfales recep- 
taculi utriculos a liquore impetus for as fpargitur. Hie fuccus 
qui inter Calycem delapfo Retalo ej' receptaculum reperitur, ab ipjb 
receptaculo rurfus excipitur, qui veroAnter receptaculum ^ em- 
bryonem, ab embryone. 
According to this Author, therefore, this Liquor is of a fweet 
Tafte, and what the Bees imploy in making their Honey, as was ob- 
ferved long ago by Cafalpinus, but he has taken no notice of its 
being Tranfparent or Glutinous. 
That Part of it, which he fays lies between the Receptaculum 
and the Retain, is probably what Malpighi affigns to his Concha, 
of which its very furprifing Rontedera has faid nothing in this 
Place : The other Part of it is the fame with what that Author fays 
is contained, prope fioris Umbilicum in the RDigitalis. 
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