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may look forward at no distant time, when we consider the 



ardent and gratifying zeal which has been awakened and 

 cherished, especially amongst our contemporaries, in favour of 

 the sound and scientific study of the anatomy and physiology 

 of plants. 



I have attempted in this Memoir, so far as lay in my power, 

 to solve many interesting questions in Vegetable Physiology, or, 

 by more accurate definitions of the subject, to advance nearer 

 to a future solution. May these observations meet with a 

 friendly reception at the hands of the vegetable physiologists 

 of Germany, and be speedily improved upon and extended. 



