GENERAL TEXT&RE OF PLANTS, IS 



tent ; others pierced with holes ranged in a 

 close spiral line, f. c ; in others several of 

 these holes run together, as it were, into 

 interrupted spiral clefts, f. d ; and in some 

 those clefts are continued, so that the whole 

 tube, more or less, is cut into a spiral line, 

 f. ej which, in some young branches and ten- 

 der leaves, will unroll to a great extent, when 

 they are gently torn asunder. The cellular 

 texture especially is extended to every part 

 of the vegetable body, even into the thin 

 skin, called the cuticle, which covers every 

 external part, and into the fine hairs or down 

 which, in some instances, clothe the cuticle 

 itself. 



Before we offer any thing upon the sup- 

 posed functions of these different organs, 

 we shall take a general view of the Vegetable 

 body, beginning at the external part and 

 proceeding inwards. 



