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VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



I. 



(^ RE AT ED NATURE, by fucceffive Seeds, with the 

 affiftance of the elements, modifies Earths into Vegetables, Ve- 

 getables into Animals, perhaps not contrarywife : (he refolves 

 each of them again into Earths, in a perennial increasing circle. 



2. VEGETABLES have life, without voluntary motion. 



3. They are commonly divided into three TRIBES. 



Thofe whofe feeds have One Cotyledon : Corn: 1, 2, 3. 

 Thofe with Two Cotyledons: Plants: 4, 5. 

 Thofe with No Cotyledon: the clafs of Clandeftine Mar- 

 riage : 6, 7, 8^ 9. 



4. The NATIONS, which have fupplied this conflux of inhabitants, 



are principally 



1. PALMS. Princes, Vegetables of India, having a Spathe and a 

 Spadix, eminent' for their prodigious height, beautiful 

 for their unvaried fimple perennial ftem, crowned with 

 an evergreen tuft of leaves, and rich with the choiceft 

 treafures of fruit. Thefe are tributary to the Primates, or 

 firjl order of animals ; in particular to the Prince their 



cohabitant. PDACCrc 



A 2 2. GRASSES. 



