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In allium or common garlick, there arifes a tri-coccous 
uterus, or feed-veffel, in the center of which is inferred 
a fhort ftylus, not reaching fo high as the apices, which 
thus overtopping it, have the opportunity of fhedding. 
their globules the more eafily into its orifice; for which 
reafon there is no tuft on this as on the former, to in- 
fure its entrance, that being provided for by its fituation 
juft under them. 
From whence we conclude, that where a fine powder 
is curioufly prepared, carefully repofited, and fhed abroad 
at a peculiar feafon, where there is a tube planted in fuch 
a manner, as to be fit to receive it, and fuch care in dif- 
pofing this tube, that where it does not lie diredfly under 
the cafes that fhed the powder, it hath a peculiar appa¬ 
ratus at the extremity to infure its entrance, fo that no¬ 
thing can be more genuinely deduced from any premifes, 
than it may from thefe, that this powder, or fome of it, 
was defigned to enter this tube ; if thefe ftamina had been 
only excretory ducts, to feparate the grofier parts, and 
leave the juice defigned for the nourifhment of the feed 
the more referred, what need was there to lodge thefe 
feces in fuch curious repofitories ? they would have been 
conveyed any where, rather than where there was fo 
much danger of their dropping into the feed-veffel again, 
as they are here. Again, the tube, over the mouth of 
which they are fhed, and into which they enter, leads 
always diredtly into the feed-veffel; to which may be 
added, that the tube always begins to die, when thefe 
thecse are emptied of their contents ; if they laft any 
longer, it is only whilft the globules which enter at their 
orifice, may be fuppofed to have finifhed their paffage; 
nor can we expect a more convincing proof of thefe 
tubes being defigned to convey thefe globules, than that 
they wither when there are no more globules to be con- 
veyed. j n 
