^24 ANIMALCULA OF INFUSIONS. U 



^ lours. We make points, we draw lines on the 

 ^^iigilre, and this we call a divifion into clalTes 



* and 



* the combination of their carbon with the oxygen gas of 



* the air ; but the quantity is very fmall when the plant is 



* ia health, fo that the caloric difengaged cannot be great, 



* and it is difengaged at the exterior of the plant. 



* Mod animals have a mouth for their aliments. Plants 

 *,have as many as fibres and pores. There is no refem- 



* .blance between the food. The ejefta of plants are ge- 



* nerally gafes, which mud be colleded and confined be- 



* fore becoming fenfible. Animals feed only at ftated 

 ^ periods j vegetables continually. 



* Moll animals pofTefs the faculty of emitting founds ; 



* vegetables do not. 



* Can the nodumal pofition of plants be called fleep ? 



* Is it repofe or watching to have the leaves turned to one 



* fide more than to another, without any apparent relaxa- 

 •5 tion ? How can we fcippofe that the tragopogon watches 

 ■* three or four hours, when the flowers are open ? It i# 

 « evident, if the leaves changed their pofition their ftalks 



* would not be pendant ; they are conftantly clofe, and 

 ' the leaves float no more than the flowers. 



« The phenomena of vegetable generation have no 

 ' greater analogy to thofe of animals. Hermaphrodites 

 « are rare in the animal kingdom ; moft plants are ftrid^- 

 < ly hermaphrodites. Very few want vifible fexuai parts,-- 



* but the number of animals deprived of them is very 

 / great. . . * 



^ Animals 



