4 GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



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37. The accessory parts of the flowers are the Pertgoite, N«- 



TABTES and BaACTEOLKS, 



38. The PfiniGOjfi: around the Stamina and Pistils is either 

 fiingle, double or multiple. When single it retains that name; 

 but when double the exterior is called Calix, and the interior 

 CoROL or Corolla, In the multiple perigone, the inner range 

 is the true Corol. 



39. The segments of the perigone and calix are called Sefals, 

 or folioles, and those of the Corol Petals, 



40. The NECTARTBa are Glands, scales^ crowns, disks and other 

 appendages within the flower. 



41. The Bbacteoies are small leaves, scales, involucres, &c. 

 around the flowers, when they resemble a perigone and sur- 

 round many flowers, they are called Pekiastue or common calix» 



42. Plants being organized bodies like Animals, perform the 

 same vital functions, three of which are essential to life, and 

 dommon to all plants, 1. NtrTuiTioK, 2. Growth, 3, REPRoutrc- 



Tiojir. 



43. The others are less essential, or less evident; they arc 

 1. Circulation, 2. Respiration, 3. Secretion, 4. Irritability, 5. Ca- 



lorificatibn, 6. Solidification, 8tc. 



44. Plants are also like Animals subject to Sleep, hyemalTor- 

 por, Diseases, Necropsy and Death, 



45. The xVN ATOMIC AL structure of plants offers a multitude 

 of internal apparatus (about thirty kinds) formed by the aggve- 

 gation of vessels, fibres and tissues. 



46. The principal are the Cellular, fibrose, glandular, absor- 

 bing, moving, vital, nutritive, reproductive, &c. 



47. CHEMICAL BOTANY detects almost all the simple clc- 

 fhents in the vegetable substances: the most abundant and pre- 



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^vegetable Life are very numerous, the principal are "Water, Air, 

 Oils, Acids, Aromes, Tannin, Extractive, Alkalis, Resins, Muci- 

 lage, Sugar, Fecula, &c, 



49. Diseases in plants are as numerous as among Animals, i^ 

 not Men ; they have only been attended to as yet with fruit trees, 

 and useful cultivated plants; many are easily curable. 



