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242 The Floral King.
Trees,” by G. Wallin, December 1729, and which
the late Dr. Ahrling considers the immediate impulse
to “‘ Preluda sponsalioum plantarum,” and ‘‘ Methodus
propria et nova a sexu desumta.”
The reader has himself on pages 31 and 32 of
this little book read what Linnzus says about
the acquatic plants, and that already Michelins
had noticed the same, but that yet the sexual
system had not struck him. Of course in science as
in everything else, many different people at vastly
different times may conceive similar ideas. But
hear what Linnzus himself says, anticipatory, by
way of a reply to the learned German doctor :—‘ it
is difficult to say who is the actual discoverer of the
sexuality of plants, for it is the case with the majority
of discoveries as it is with rivers, which begin with
small tributaries from various sources, until at last
they gain such strength that they are able to carry
onward even the heaviest loads.” And again, we
may refer to a page of this book, 167, where
Linnzus writes “that’s the reward here in Sweden,
where after the manner of the Germans, we labour
to refute that which we do not ourselves understand,
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