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Vegetable Staticks. 



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from its branches, viz. becaufe thereby a 

 lei's quantity of fap arifing, it is better di- 

 digefted and prepared for the nourifh mcnt 

 of the fruit j which from the greater quan. 

 tity of oil, that is ufually found in the feeds 

 and their containing veiTcls, than in other 

 parts of plants, (hews that more fulphtir and 

 air is rcquifitc for their production, than there 

 is for the production of wood and leaves. 



But the moft confukrable objection a- 

 gainft this progreflive motion of the fap, 

 without a circulation, arifes from hence, viz. 

 that it is too precipitate a courfe, for a due 

 digeflion of the fap, in order to nutrition: 

 Whereas in animals nature has provided, 

 that . many parts of the blood fhall run a 

 long courfe, before they arc cither applied 

 to nutrition, or difcharged from the animal. 



But when we confider, that the great 



work of nutrition;, in vegetables as well as 



animals, (I mean after the nutriment is got 



into the veins and arteries of animals) is chief- 



\y carried on in the fine capillary veiTcls, 



where nature felects and combines, as fhall 



bed .fu.it her different purpofes, the feveral 



mutually attracting nutritious particles, which 



were hitherto kept disjoined by the motion 



of 



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