60 STATES OF INSECTS. (Lgg.) 
sect and the vegetable, and has given a table in which he 
has contrasted their developments, including other ani- 
mals that undergo a metamorphosis* : an idea which has 
been generalized by Bonnet”, and adopted and enlarged 
by Dr. Virey®. A state analogous to that of the larva 
in the insect begins in the plant when it is disclosed from 
the seed, or springs from its hybernaculum in the bulb, 
&c., or is evolved from the gemma; integument after in- 
tegument, often in various forms, as cotyledon, radical, 
cauline, or floral leaves, expands as the stem rises, all 
which envelopes incase the true representative of the 
plant, the fructification, as the various skins do the future 
butterfly. When these integuments are all expanded, 
the fructification appears inclosed by the calyx or corolla 
as the case may be, in which the generative organs are 
matured for their office—this is the bud, which is clearly 
analogous to the pupa state of the insect. Next the calyx 
and corolla expand, the impregnation of the germen takes 
place, and the seed being ripened, and dispersed by the 
opening of the seed-vessel or ovary of the plant, the in- 
dividual dies: thus the zmago state of the insect has its 
representative in the plant. “Ifwe place,” says Dr. Virey, 
«here the egg of the insect, next its caterpillar, a little 
further the chrysalis, and lastly the butterfly—what is 
this but an animal stem—an elongation perfectly similar 
to that of the plant issuing from the seed to attain its 
blossoming and propagation ?° 
There being, therefore, this general analogy in their 
progress to that state in which they can continue their 
species between every part of animated nature, it holds 
a Bibl. Nat. Ed. Hill. ii. 138. > Huwor. v. 283—. 
© N. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. xx. 355. 
