Il6 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



winds which agitate them ; by their roots, with the 

 ground which fuftains them ; and by their grains* 

 with their fituations adapted to their growth and 

 increafe. Not that thefe principal parts have no 

 indirect, relations befides to the other elements, but 

 it will be fufficient for our purpofe to dwell on 

 fuch as are immediate. 



Elementary Harmonies of Plants with the Sun, by the 

 Flowers. 



Though Botanifts may have made great and la- 

 borious refearches refpedting plants, they have 

 paid no attention to any of thofe relations. Fet- 

 tered by their fyftems, they have attached them- 

 felves to the confideration of them, particularly on 

 the fide of the flowers : and have arranged them 

 in the fame clafs, wherever they found thefe ex» 

 ternal refemblances, without fo much as enquiring 

 what might be the particular ufe of the florifica- 

 tion. They have, indeed, diftinguilhed in it the 

 ftamina, the antherœ, and the fligmata, for the 

 fecundation of the fruit, but, excepting this, and 

 fome others, which refpect the interior organiza- 

 tion, they have neglected, or mifunderttood, the 

 relations which the whole plant has with the reft 

 of Nature. 



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