STUDY I. 7 



tion round the head, they have the advantage of 

 viewing the whole circuit of the heavens at the 

 fame inftant, while thofe of the Aftronomer can 

 take in, at moft, but the half. My winged infefts, 

 accordingly, muft difcern in the ftrawberry plant, 

 at a fingle glance, an arrangement and combina- 

 tion of parts, which, aflifted by the microfcope, I 

 can obferve only feparate from each other, and in 

 fucceffion. 



On examining the leaves of this vegetable, with 

 the aid of a lens which had but a fmall magni- 

 fying power, 1 found them divided into compart- 

 ments, hedged round with briftles, feparated by 

 canals, and ftrewed with glands. Thefe compart- 

 ments appeared to me fimilar to large verdant in- 

 clofures, their briftles to vegetables of a particular 

 order; of which fome were upright, fome inclined, 

 fome forked, fome hollowed into tubes, from the 

 extremity of which a liquid diftilled ; and their 

 canals, as well as their glands, feemed full of a 

 brilliant fluid. In plants of a different fpecies, 

 thefe briftles, and thefe canals, exhibit forms, co- 

 lours, and fluids, entirely different. There are even 

 glands, which refemble bafons, round, fquare, or 

 radiated. 



Now, Nature has made nothing in vain. Where- 

 ever fhe has prepared a habitation, ftie immedi- 



B 4 ately 



