CHAPTER XXII. 



LIFE LIVES IN CELLS— CONCEPTION IS BY FISSION OF CELLS 



—ORIGIN OF BUD VARIATIONS OR "SPORTS" — 



BISEXUAL LIFE IN CARNATIONS— IN ALL 



THE MONCECIAN CLASS OF PLANTS. 



LIFE lives in microscopic cells, a cell is the unit of life. A 

 cell enfolds a vital spark. The structure of an elephant 

 or an aphid, is an association of cells, and their lives and 

 physic force is the concerted energy of aggregate cell life. Every 

 vegetable and animal organism is vitalized matter, built out of 

 physic animates. There is no spontaneity in life. Life has never 

 occured on this ball of dirt without antecedent life since the Cre- 

 ative Fiat first spoke it into a cell of quivering protoplastic jelly. 

 In the lower order of vegetable existences life is continued by 

 '''segfegation'' a segment of the plant separates from the aggregate 

 and lives. Animals much higher than the Zoophyte class con- 

 tinue their species on the same principle and are devoid of genera- 

 tive organs. The\execrated greenfly, at whose shrine florists 

 weekly pours the incense of tobacco fumes to propitiate its ab- 

 sence, multiplies its millions by little protuberances on the inner 

 walls of its abdomen, which rapidly detach themselves and are 

 hatched as living flies. In ascending the Mo7icEcian order of 

 plants, the male and female organs of generation are joined in the 

 same flower and it requires the male pollen to fertilize the seed. 

 The male and female forces exist in the same plant, and their re- 

 spective organs are known as sfa7?ii?is and pistils. 



In the DicEcia7i class of plants the sexes are separated and 

 live in trees and plants springing from different and their own 

 roots. One plant possesses only stamins the male organ of genera- 

 tion and pollen the male fertilizing dust; another plant possesses 

 only the pistils the female organ of generation with a gummy 

 stigma to receive and retain the male dust. 



