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With ſoft attentions of Platonic love.

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| rate males, as the ſun-flower, are furniſhed with a ſtyle only, j and no ſtigma: and are thence barren. There is alſo a ſtyle |:

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fowers of which are thence barren. The Opulus is another

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plant, which contains ſome unprolific fowers. In like manner ſome tribes of inſe&s have males, females, and neuters among them; as bees, waſps, ants.

There is a curious circumſtance belonging to the claſs of in- ſets which have two wings, or diptera, analogous to the rudi- ments of ſtamens above deſcribed: viz. two little knobs are found placed each on a ſftalk or peduncle, generally under a little arched ſcale; which appear to be rudiments of hinder wings, and

are called by Linneus halteres, or poifers, a term of his introduc-

tion. A. T. Bladh. Aman, Acad. V. 7. Other animals have

marks of having in a long proceſs of time undergone changes in

? ſome parts of their bodies, which may have been effe&ed to ac-

k;-..»„rT cCommodate them to new ways of procuring their food. The

( exiſtence of teats on the breaſts of male animals, and which are

generally replete with a thin kind of milk at their nativity, is

SIE ed dt: in eien Se BEBE elörn| 550 a wonderful inſtance of this kind. Perhaps all the productions of nature are in their progreſs to greater perfection! an idea countenanced by the modern diſcoveries and deduCtions concern-

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