174: THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



Here it is seen that the first member of the Primary Trin- 

 ity, the radical fiber or the root principle, so to speak, of 

 vegetation, has its counterpart and sub-correspondent in the 

 first member of the Secondary Trinity, in the leafing plants 

 leaves being merely aerial roots. The second member of the 

 Primary Trinity, consisting of plants with a simple stem, has 

 its counterpart and sub-correspondent in the second member 

 of the Secondary Trinity the organs of fructification in the 

 cryptogamous plants being connected with the leaves, and 

 being mere shoots from them as from a root. Considering 

 the cryptogamous plants in the Vegetable Kingdom as a whole, 

 as corresponding to the flower-buds of a single tree, the third 

 member of the Secondary Trinity, showing the branchings 

 from the flower-buds, as from a stem, bears a certain corre- 

 spondence to the third member of the Primary Trinity, em- 

 bracing merely the branching forms of vegetation, The seventh 

 member is not only of a more perfect organic structure, but 

 it embraces all the more perfect fruit-bearing trees which afford 

 nourishment to higher kingdoms, and therefore it may be con- 

 sidered as the crown of the whole Vegetable Kingdom. It is 

 thus seen that the grand and natural divisions of the Vegeta- 

 ble World, conform to the septenary and ternary serial law ; 

 and its complete series will be found, on comparison, to corre- 

 spond generally and particularly with all other complete series. 



