a74 ESSAYS arp OBSERVATIONS 
“‘ amplius deeft, quam vis fe extendendi, e- 
“am autem calor demum excitat.” Is not 
this as applicable to feeds, as to gems? ‘* Se- 
men, (fays Lznnaeus) (y) proprie, novum ve- 
*‘ cetabilis rudimentum, humore rigatum, 
“ vefica tunicatum.” And is nota gemma 
the fame? ora more perfect feed? however, 
call it embryon, compendium, primordium plantae, 
or what you pleafe, with its covers: fince 
Linnaeus owns, ‘* Generationes plantarum ex 
“ femine et gemma efle eoevas (z)”; and “ gem- 
& § 
‘* mas, proinde ac femina, in fe continere pri- 
‘© mordium plantae (a);” it comes to the 
fame thing for our purpofe. For, 
52. Ir gems contain the primordia plantarum, 
they contain the moft eflential part of feeds ; 
becaufe the feminis effentia confiffit in corculo 
(6); and the corculum is nothing but the 
novae plantae primordium (c). Now fince 
buds or gems are copioufly produced by 
numberiefs plants, and often break out of 
the fmootheft part of the bark, efpecially 
of pruned trees; and, fince the {malleft 
part 
(y) Ltn. Phil. bot. p. 54. 
(z) Phil. Bot. p. 83. 
{2) Gem. arb. Amaen acad. 2. p. 185 
(4) Phil. bot. p. 56. 
{c) Ib. p. 54. 
