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Show GE bring forth Grafs, the Herb yielding S the Fruitettee yielding GE 1, and and the Petala or Flower-Leaves, which are difpos'd aroundthe little Embryo, feem to be The Ancients indeed diftinguifh’d the Ge- little Veffels for the Support of it during the little time that theylaft and it requires ; bat fome fuppofe the chief Ufe of them to be to defend the Pift Fruit, after his Kind, hofe Seed is in itfelf upon the Earth. neration of Animals into two Kinds, i. e. into call’d Univocal ; and Anomalous, call’d alfo Equivocal or Spontaneous. 5 defign’d only to prepare a fine Juice in the The firft was effe&ed by Parent Animals of The Apices of Stamina are {mall Capthe fame Kind, as that of Men, Birds, Beats, Jula or Bags fuil of a Farina or Duft, which @c. The fecond they fuppos’d to be effected falls out when’ the Cap/ula grows ripe and by Corruption, the Sun, @c. As that of In- burfts. fe&s, Frogs, &c. But this latter is now geneMonf. Touruefort fuppos’d this Duft to be rally exploded. only an Excrement of the Food ofthe Many, indeed, have eflay’d to treat of the Generation of Animals, but fewhave been able to give that fatisfaGory Account ofit tha were to be wifh’dfor, and far fewer yet have been able to treat of the Generation of Plants fo as it ought to be; for that which fill kept them in the Dark, was, 1ft, That though there were two different Sexes in Animals, by whofe mutual Affiltance the Species was propagated, yet there was no fuch thing then known in Plants. 2dly, That though it can now be made appear, that every Animal is produc’d by Univocal Generation, i. e. from an Egg, and not by Corruption, @c. as moft of the Ancients Lee” can Rude ceedaie Fruit, and the Stamina to be but only excretory Du&s, which filtrated this ufelefs Matter, and thus difcharg’d the Embryo: But Mr, My- land, Mr. Geoffroy, and others, find nobler Ufes for this Duft. Ontheir Principle, the Stamina, with the Apices and Farina, make the Male Part of the Plant, and the P hd, the J Female. Mr. Morland fays, It hath been long ago obferv'd, that there isin everyparticularSeed a Seminal Plant conveniently lodg’d between the two Lobes, which confticute the Bulk of the Seed, and are defign’d for the firft Nourifhment of the tender Plant, But the admirable Dr. Grew, to whole geimagin’d the Infeé&s were, yet there are ftill nerous Induftry and happy Sagacity we are thofe who maintain, that thofe which they indebted for the beft Improvements ofthis call Imperfect Plants, are the Produ@ of a Part of Knowledge, is the only Author I can certain Rottennefs in the Earth. find, who hath obferv’d, that the Fariva ot he Generation of Plants bears a clofe Anafine Powder, which is at its proper Seafon fogy to that of fome Animals, efpecially fuch fhed out of thofe Thece or Apices femiuif as want local Motion, as Mulcles, and other [ie Seed-forming Cafes] which growat the immoveable Shell-fifh, whichare HermaphroTopoft he Stamiaa, doth fome way perform dites, and contain both the Male and Female the Office of Male Sperm. But herein, I think, Organs ofGeneration, he falls fhort, in that he fuppofes them only The Flower ofa Plant is found to be the to drop uponthe Outfide or Uterms, or Vale Pudendum, or principal Organ of Generation ; lum Seminale, and to impregnat na e the included but the Ufe of fo much Mechanifm, and fo Seed by fome fpirituous Emana tions or enermanyParts has beenbut little known. getical Impref s, The Flower of a Lily confitts of fix Petala, i That which is now fubje@ or Flower-leaves; from the Bottom of which, at the Middle, arifes a kind of Tube, call’d the Piftilum ; and pretty fine Threads, call’d the Stamina, are difpos’d around it: Thefe Stamina are likewife from the Bottom ofthe Flower, and terminate at the Top in little Bunches call’d Apices, which are replete with a fine Duft call’d Farina. his is the general Stru@ure ofthe Flowers of Plants, although they are infinite Ways diverfify’d, and to fuch a Degree, that fome have no fenfible Piftile, and others want the Stamina; others again have the Stamina, but want the pices; and fome Plants exceed all others ed to the Ditquifitions and Cenfure of {ach whofe exqui Skill doth conftitute them Judges of fuch F formances, is, whether it be not more pro} to {uppofe that the Seeds which come up their proper Involucra, are at thefirft ant ptegnated Ova (or Eggs) of Animals ; this Farinais a Congeries of feminal Plants, of which mutt be convey’d into every before it can become prolifick: 1 Stylus, in Mr Ray's Language; orthe Part ofthe Piftilum, in Mr. Tournefort Tube defign’d to convey thefe feminal into their Neft in the Ova: That there Plant is {0 vaft a Provifion made. becaufe of the Odes in this, that they have no Flowers : there are, whether one of fo manyfhall ever Bue if it be allow’d, that this before-men- find its Wayinto and through fo narrow 4 a qd be the moft common Stru@ure of Conveyance . ‘wets, it will follow, that i thefe Parts that feem wanting are ufually To make this Suppofition the more credible, only. lefs apparent. I fhall Jay down the Obfervations I have . The Fruit is ufually at the Bafe of the uponthe Situation of thefe Stamin ed oe the a and Piftilum falls with Stylus in fome few§ pecies of Plants the fendof . Swi the Fruit appears in w here Imperia Corona the in Firft, lis, ; * is the Fruit itfelfut oftentimes the Piftilum Uterus or Vafculum Seminale ofthe Plant ftat ; but ftill they have both the fame Situation in theCenter ofthe Flo wer, upon the Center of the Flower, and ALOT te Top of this arifeth the Sty/vs, the 7 $ é er reprefenting a Piftilum. Roundthis are planted fix Stamina; upon he Ends of each of thefe are Apices fo artfully fix’d, that they turn every Way with the leaft Wind, being in Height almolt exadly equal to the Svy/ws about which theyplay, and which in this Plant is manifeft! open at the Top, as it is hollowall the V ye To which we muft add, that upon the Top of the Sty/ws there is Sort of Tuft confilting of Pinguid Vili, which I imagin’d to be plac’d there to catch and detain the Farina as it flies out of the Theca; from hence, I fuppofe, the Wind fhakes it down the Tube, till it reach which Flower are fent forth feveral Stamina, that fhed their Fariza out of the Cafes upon which in this Plant is villous or tufted, upon the fame Account as in the former. In Adium or common Garlick, there arifes a 1s Uterus or Seed-Veflel; in the Cen 1is inferted a fhort Sty/as, not rez fo high as vincing Proof of thefe 7 convey thele Globules, t when there are nc If I could now pregnaced Seed are ever to be out this Seminal Plant, the Pro to a Demonttration; but havi happyas to obfervethis, I fha felbrae \ one would conclr Flo re rather defig { ous Juices from what was left to 1 to perf folium or Honey-ft rom the Rudiment it is inferted the Orifice ofthe Sr their Contents; if the whilft the Globu ce, maybe fuppos’dto| inifh’d their Now, can we well expedt z € con- the Apices, which thus over. topping it, have the Opportunity of fheddins their Globules into an Orifice more eafily: here fhoul I fha Steps towards a P1 with fome {uch Hints, as defpair of being able, i the World even Fornot to infil Plant always lies i at Part of th For which Reafon I can difcern no Tuft upon is always neareft to the Infertion of this (as in the former) to infure their Entrance or fome Propagation ofit into the & I have difcover’d in Beans, Peas juft under one End of what we oration, (difcern ying Glafles) that being provided for byits Situation juft under them. The Reader, I hope, will excufe me, if I ent him now with fome fuch Reafonings lexions as the foregoing Account doth and will (upport and I can’t but hope to perfuade thofe that are candid, that I have affign’d to the feveral Parts of the Flowers I have mention’d, their true andreal Ufe. For nothing can be more natural than to conclude, that where a fine Powder is curi—onfly prepar’d, carefully repofited, and thed abroad at a peculiar Seafon, where there is a Tube fo planted be found deftitute of t now proceed to defcribe nts, whereby it will appear there is a partic > always exerc conveythis Powder, fo often mention’d, ir as to be fit to receive it, and fuch Care in difpofing this Tube, that where it doth not lie directly under the C fhed the Powder, it hath a particular at the End to infure its Entrance. € more genuinely deduc’d fron this Po y tothe Seminal Plant, and at which L fuppole the Seminal Plant did enter ; and hink, the Beans or Peas that do than it mayfrom this, that or fome ofit, was defign’d to lifcover the liqua clofelycc volying Memt e, which abou into feveral Stami atiry enter this Tube. .If thefe Stamina had been Only excretory Du&s, as has been hitherto fuppos’d, to f te the grofler Parts, and n'd for the Nourifhment refervd, what need was ents in fuch curiThey would have been er than where there » much Danger of their dropping into d Jel again, as th r the Mouth of wh into ly into t add, that ee um n ’ conilring :| g togeth ading tot }I a great Number re rifes a tricocisf{mall,and not eaf ttomtill it is impr up, and fts the always to dic when thefe Theca are empty’dof |