the natural Distribution of Insects and Fungi. 65 
Consequently some general idea of the primary distribution of 
all organized beings may be obtained from the following figure. 
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To conclude: If an arrangement be natural, it will stand any 
test; and to support the truth of this proposition, I shall now 
arrange 
vel rimas querunt, humiditateque gaudent ut illa, organis jam in superiore sectione 
deperditis iterum instructe.” In these last words he alludes to his own opinion, that 
Mosses display organs nearly related to the cotyledons of dicotyledonous plants, while 
the monocotyledonous plants conceal their cotyledon; and if botanists should adopt 
this opinion, we might assimilate it to the curious fact, that in the animal kingdom the 
imperfectly organized Mollusca display a heart, which is more analogous to that of the 
Vertebrata than the dorsal vessel of insects. With respect, indeed, to the analogies 
existing between the animal and vegetable kingdoms, they are too striking to have alto- 
gether escaped the notice of such an observer as Agardh, who truly observes, “ Memo- 
rabilis est analogia evolutionis seriei vegetabilis cum animali." When we find him, 
however, comparing the least perfect vegetables to some of the most perfect animals, 
the Alge to Fishes, and the Lichenes to Insects, we must suspect that he is not suffi- 
ciently acquainted with the evolution of the animal series, and conclude that he has at 
least not sufficiently attended to the parallelism of analogy. Nevertheless, his compa- 
rison of Monocotyledonous, or, as he terms them, of Cryptocotyledonous Plants to 
Birds, appears to be a true relation of analogy, although an indirect one; and if he had 
paid that attention to Entomology which the science really merits, so acute a botanist 
could not have failed to perceive, that the arguments he gives in support of this last 
analogy, only receive their full force when they are employed in the comparison of 
Monocotyledonous Plants with Insects. Thus, in the same page, he states aériferous 
cells to be peculiar to Birds in the animal kingdom, evidently not aware that many 
more animals than are in the whole department of Vertebrata would have no means 
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