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'^t^TH CHEMICAL ArriNlTY- 



Explanation of the Plate, 



, Plate I, fig. 1, A horizontal cutting of the re<^ cabbage; t# 

 show the difference between the leaf bud and flower bud in 

 annuals: the flower bud proceeding from the line of life, 

 flowing within the pith, asatctf; thf le^f bud generated 

 within the rest of the leaves, as at bb h» 



Fig. 2, The interior of the leaf bud, where many flowery 

 grow in a bunch ; the scales taken off. cee new flower buds 

 just generated on the line of life. 



Fig. 3, A leaf bud, where no line of life is to be found. 



Fig. 4, Mixed bud, of the apricot, in which the flowei* 

 is completely separated frona the leaf. <f, the female ; e^ 

 males ; f, the line of life. 



- Fig. 5, The manner in which the leaf buds grow in the 

 palmate buds. Each spiral turn makes a separate bud. 



Fig. 6, A cutting of the potentilla; showing the circular 

 line of albumen, in which the buds are formed. I have- 

 sioce found a vast number of annuals fprmed in this man<^* 

 ncr; that is, having the circular line of albumen within th^ 

 ]i»eof the pith, in which the buds are very much formed. 

 ' Fig. 7, A sort of screws formed at the end of many new 

 shoots, which are cradles for buds. 



Observations on the Hypothesis, which refers chemical Affi,-. 

 idty to the electrical Energies of the Particles of Matter^ 

 By J. D. Maycock, Msq» Communicated by the Aur 

 thor*. 



Mr. DaTy's 5'ccf. I. J? ROM the consideration of an important, anij 

 kjpothesis of interesting series of phenonienaf, Mr. Davy has throwij^ 



* TBts Essay, in very nearly its present form, -was read to the Royal 

 Medical Society of Edinburgh, on the 13th of March, in answer to a 

 4|utstion proposed by the Society, and gained the gold medal. Th«t 



question 



• t Phd- Trans. 1807 : or Journ. vol. XVIII, p. 321, XjX, p. 37. 



