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of the “wind from the male to the female ; as lit 
the whole dioicous m clafs. Again a more diffi- 
cult impregnation is compenfated by the lon- 
gevity of the individuals, and the continuation 
of life by buds, fuckers and roots, fo that we 
may obferve every thing moil wifely difpofed 
in this affair. Moreover we cannot without 
admiration obferve that moil flowers expand 
themfelves when the fun fhines forth, whereas 
when clouds, rain, or the evening comes on, 
they clofe up, left the genital dull fhould be 
coagulated, or rendered ufelefs, fo that it can- 
not be conveyed to the ftigmata. But what is 
ftill more remarkable and wonderfull ! when 
the fecundation is over, the flowers neither 
upon ihowers, nor evening coming on clofe 
themfelves up. Hence when rain falls in the 
flowering time, the huibandman and gardener 
foretell a fcarcity of fruits. I could and would 
iluftrate all this by many remarkable inftances, 
if the fame fubjedt had not lately been explain- 
ed, in this very place 11 in a manner equal to its 
m i. e. where one plant bears male flowers, and the other 
female ones. 
*> I fuppofe the author here alludes to a treatife publifhed 
in Am^n. academ. vol. i. entitled, Sponfalia plant arum , in 
which are contained fo many proofs of the reality of the 
different fexes of plants, that to me there feems to remain 
mo room for doubt. 
