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* and genera. We obferve the predominant co* 



* lours, while the delicate {hades efcape our no- 



* tice, 



* Animals reproduce only after attaining their perfeft 



* ftate : many plants multiply that are far from it, and 



* are fecundated though they want leaves. In animals, 

 ' the generative organs remain after fecundation, but 



* they fall from plants, which have none the greateft part 



* of their exiflence : then they are repaired, and in a dif- 

 ^ ferent place from their original fituation. 



* Animals, that reproduce by the concourfe of fexes, 



* propagate in no other manner, whereas plants multiply 



* by {hoots and buds, fo that each part of a plant can fur- 



* nifli another complete individual. Finally, the genera- 



* tive organ of many becomes the fruit. 



* The eggs of animals are full of a particular fluid ; 



* but feeds of a folid farinaceous fubllance. 



' The number of germs is infinitely greater in the ve- 



* getable than in the animal'kingdom : few animals re- 



* produce by fhoots. 



* A tree, cut down during winter, will fometimes live 



* till the following autumn, and be covered with leaves 



* and branches. 



* What animal may be ingrafted on another, as a peach 



* tree on an almond ? The graft of a polypus is different, 



* for it is the fame animal growing upon itfelf. 



* Animals grow by a proportional expanfion of all their 



* parts, but leaves, flowers, and fruit, conflantly remain 



* the fame after evolution. 



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