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•KATURAL HISTORY. 
"the germ indofes and defends the feeds. 
The Jiyie fifes from the germ, and fup- 
ports the ftigma. 
The Jiigma is the female organ of gene- 
ration, and is fituated upon the top of the 
ftyle, if any ; if not, it fits upon the germ. 
6. F R U C T U S— r//e FRUIT. 
T . 
J- H F. different fpecies of fruit, fuch as 
plums, berries, apples, feeds, &c. are too 
well known to require a defeription. 
The CLASSES. 
LOWERS are either hermaphrodite, 
from having both the fexual diitinftions of 
male and females, (lamina and pointals ; 
male, from having Jlam'ma only j or fe- 
male, from having or\\y pointah. 
The Jlamina are either detached from 
each other, united together by one of their 
parts, or joined fometinies with pointals : 
they are of equal length, or have fomc 
fiiorter than the red ; and the number, pro- 
portion, and fituation of the (lamina deter- 
mine clcilfcs, as the dift'erences of the 
poijital* determine the orders of (lowers. 
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