INTRODUCTION 



TO 



PHYSIOLOGICAL and SYSTEMATICAL 



* BOTANY. 



CHAPTER L 



DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN ANIMALS, VE- 

 GETABLES, AND FOSSILS. ON THE 



VITAL PR,INCIPLE ESSENTIAL TO THE 

 TWO FORMER. 



Those Vvho with a philosophical eye have 

 contemplated the productions of Nature, 

 have all, by common consent, divided them 

 into three great classes, called the Animal, 

 the Vegetable, and the Mineral or Fossil 

 Kingdoms. These terms are still in gene- 

 ral use, and the most superficial observer 



B 



