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perly fo called, which he denominates Bromos, but 

 into a plant which, at firft fight, refembles it, and 

 to which he gives the name of jEgilops. This trans- 

 formation, demonftrated by the frequently repeated 

 experiments of the hufbandmen of his country, and 

 by that which the father of Galen made, exprefsly 

 for his own fatisfaction ; together with that of the 

 flowers of the linarium, and of the leaves of many 

 vegetables, are fufficient proof, that the elemen- 

 tary relations of plants, are only fecondary rela- 

 tions, and that animal, or human, relations are the 

 primary. Thus, Nature has placed the character 

 of a plant, not only in the form of the fruit, but 

 in the fubftance of that very fruit. 



Hence I prefume, that having formed, in gene- 

 ral, of a mealy fubftance, the bafis of human 

 life, Nature has diffufed it over all fituations, on 

 different fpecies of graffes ; that afterwards, in- 

 tending to add to this, certain modifications rela- 

 tive to fome humors of the human temperament, 

 or to fome influence of feafon, or of climate, (he 

 has formed other combinations of it, which fhe 

 has depofited in leguminous plants, fuch as peafe 

 and beans, which the Romans comprehended in 

 the clafs of comblants ; that, finally, fhe has 

 formed another fort of it, which fhe has laid up 

 in the fruits of trees, fuch as cheftnuts, or in roots, 



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