248 Of the Farina o/* Flowers. 
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Care, in Veflels wonderfully contrived to 
open and difcbarge it when it becomes ma-* 
ture : that there is likewife a Pifiil, Seed - 
Vejfel > or Uterus , in the Center of the Flower, 
ready to receive the minute Grains of this 
Powder, as they either fall of themfelves, or 
are blown out of their little Cells. And 
Experience, founded on numberlefs Experi¬ 
ments, proves, that on this depends entirely 
the Fertility of the Seed: for if the Farina- 
Vejfels be cut away before they open and 
ihed their Powder, the Seed becomes barren 
and unproductive. 
This Farina is therefore judged to be the 
Male Seed of Plants, and every little Grain 
of its Powder may poffibly contain in it a 
minute Plant of the Species whereto it be¬ 
longs.—It is wonderful to obferve the va¬ 
rious Contrivances Nature employs to pre¬ 
vent this Powder from being unprofitably 
difperfed, and to aflift its Entrance into the 
proper Pifiil, Seed-Veff'el, or Uterus, prepared 
for it. The Tulip, for Inftance, which Eands 
upright, has its Pifiil fhorter than the Fari- 
na-Veffels , that the Powder may fall diredlly 
on it; but in the Martagon, which turns 
downwards, the Pijlil is longer than the faid 
Veffels, and fwells out at its Extremity, to 
catch the Farina hanging over it as it 
theds. 
A Mind 
