7 6 OF VEGETABLE Sect. XIII. 5. r. 



their motions being affociated with thofe of the irritated part. 

 So the various (lamina of the clafsof fyngenefia have been accuf- 

 tomed to rontvicfc together in the evening, and thence if you 

 ftimuhte one of them with a pin, according to the experiment 

 of M. Colvolo, they all contract from their acquired affociations. 

 Which alio (hows, that the number of male or female organs 

 cxilHng in one flower does not deftroy the individuality of it; 

 any more than the number of paps of a bitch or fow, or the 

 double organ of a barn-door cock j which is further evinced by 

 the anthers and ftigmas of fome hermaphrodite flowers proba- 

 bly receiving th&ir nutriment from the fame honey-gland or 

 nectary, and having their blood oxygenated by the fame corol, 

 while in the plants of the claffes of moneciaand diecia the male 

 and female organs of reproduction belong to different vegetable 

 beings. 



To evince that the collnpfing of the fenfitive plant is not ow- 

 ing to any mechanical vibrations propagated along the whole 

 branch, when a (ingle leaf is (truck with the finger, a leaf of it 

 was (lit with {harp fciffars, and fome feconds of time pafled be- 

 fore the plant feemed fenfible of the injury ; and then the whole 

 branch coilapfed as far as the principal item : this experiment 

 was repeated feveral times with the lead poflible impulfe to the 

 plant. 



V. 1. For the numerous circumftances in which vegetable 

 buds are analogous to animals, the reader is referred to the ad- 

 ditional notes at the end of the Botanic Garden, Part I. It is 

 there (hewn, that the roots of vegetables refemble the lacteal fyf- 

 tem of animals •, the fap-veffels in the early fpring, before their 



L/es expand, are analogous to the placental vciTels of the foe- 

 tus ; that the leaves of land-plants refemble lungs, and thofe of 

 aquatic plants the gills of fiih ; that there are other fy(lem3 of 

 veffels refombling the vena portarum of quadrupeds, or the aor- 

 ta of fiih ; that the digeftive power of vegetables is (imilar to 

 that of animals, converting the fluids, which they abforb, into 

 fu.^ar •, that their feeds refemble the eggs of animals, and their 

 buds and bulbs their viviparous offspring. And, laltly, that 

 the anthers and ftigmas arc real animals, attached indeed to 

 their parent tree like polypi or coral infects, but capable of fpon- 

 taneous motion ; that they are affected with the paifion of 

 love, and furniihed with powers of reproducing their fpecies, 

 and are fed with honey like the moths and butterflies, which 

 plunder their nectaries. See Botanic Garden, Part I. add. note 

 XXXIX. 



The male flowers of vallifneria approach (till nearer to appar- 

 ent animality, as they detach themlelves from the parent plant, 



and 



