GkoWTH Of SEEtfS. Iffj 



hook is soon forrried, and the young plant is raised to 

 life. 



They who doubt, that each part of the plant has its dif- 

 ferent juices, proceeding from and appertaining to the pro- 

 duce of one part alone; that is, the wood, when rising to 

 the flowering part, gives its juice only to form the stamens; Peculiar juices 

 the line of life to form the pistil; the bark to form the.co- 

 rol, &c. ; would no longer deny their assent, if they would 

 dissect, and very much magnify the part of the pericarp 

 just above and below the seeds, and see the extreme pains 

 nature takes, that the juices may in no manner be mixed^ 

 I have drawings of almost every different formed flower in 

 these parjs, both English and exotic; and I think I could 

 prove the truth of this assertion, without having recourse to 

 the rationalia of the matter, which would certainly show 

 the impossibility, that such parts, so different in their ap~ appropriate to 

 pearance, so opposite in their tendency, should grow from eac pai ,* 

 the iame vessels, and proceed from the same juices* Na- 

 ture gives us also a proof of the confusion occasioned by 

 the mixture of the juices in the double flower, which owes Double flowers 

 its deformity probably to this cause only ; as I have always owi "g to too 

 found, on dissecting and comparing double and single flow- ment bursting 

 ers of the same species together, that, when it is the pistil the finer vessel, 

 that fails, the style is discovered to be burst the whole way, 

 so that the juices can neither pass to the stigma for impreg- 

 nation, nor return again to the seed : but when the stamens 

 are imperfect, the seeds are often found in the pericarp, 

 but they never have the void in the corculum filled up ; and 

 I have often seen the inner vessel of the style hanging like and mixing the 



a useless thread in the middle of the seed vessel, and a con- J mc ^> thus 

 r . f .. . causing mon* 



fusion visible in every part, which seems to prove a general sters. 



mixture of the juices, from the excess of nourishment 

 bursting the delicate fibres, that contained each peculiar 

 liquid. 



I meant not however to enter into this digression, as it is 

 a subject that requires many drawings to elucidate it, and 

 more reasonings than a short paragraph will adroit of. I re- 

 turn therefore to the infant plant, and shall venture to add The loss of the 

 a few of the innumerable experiments made to prove whe- cot 7^ donsdoe9 

 ther this cwd of life (or as it is generally called umbilical 



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