x$b Of the Generation 
Seeds of Plants are proved, by repeated Ex¬ 
periments, to be unprolific, if the Farinas 
be not permitted to fhed, it has been fup- 
pofed, that all its Granula contain feminal 
Plants of their own Kind. 
The Growth of Animals and Vegetables 
feems to be nothing elfe but a gradual Un¬ 
folding and Expanfion of their Veffels, by a 
flow and progreffive Inlinuation of Fluids 
adapted to their Diameters; until, being 
Jfretched to the utmoft Bounds appointed 
them by Providence at their Formation, they 
attain their State of Perfection, or, in other 
Words, arrive at their full Growth. 
It is thought probable, according to this 
Theory, that in Animals (of the larger and 
more perfedt Kind at lead) the Semen of the 
Male being received into the Matrix of the 
Female, forne of the Animalcules it contains 
in fuch Abundance find an Entrance into 
the Ovaria , and lodge them Selves in fome 
of the Ova placed there by Providence as a 
proper Nidus for them. 
An Ovum becoming thus inhabited by an 
Animalcule, gets loofened in due Time from 
its- Ovarium y and pafl.es into the. Matrix 
through one of the Fallopian Tubes. The 
Veins and Arteries that fattened it to the 
Ovary , and were broken when it dropped 
from thence, unite with the Veffels it finds 
here, and compofe the Placenta. The Coats 
of the Ovum s being fwelled and dilated by 
