132 

 PART THE THIRD. 



Of PLANTS and FOSSILS. 



CHAP. I. 



Of PLANTS. 



1. What we mean by Plants. 



2. Their liquid Farts. 



3. Their solid Parts. 



4. Of the Bark. 



5. The Wood. 



6. The Pith. 



7. The Root and Branches. 



8. The Leaves. 



9. The Nutrition of Plants. 



10. Water not the Nutriment of 



Plants. 



11. The Motion of the Nutritive 



Juice. 



12. The Descent and Ascept of 



the Sap. 



13. Of the Increase of Grain 



and Seeds. 



14. Of Male and Female Plants, 



15. Of the Sleep of Plants. 



16. Of the Agreement between 



Plants and Animal i. 



1 7. Of the Generation of Plants. 



18. Of their Flowers. 



19. Their Seeds. 



20. Their Fruits. 



21. Of the Perspiration ef 



Plants. 



22. Trees inverted will grow. 



23. Of the Propagationof several 



Plants. 



24. Of Grain planted in various 



Substances. 



}. JjY Plants we mean organized bodies, destitute 

 of sense and motion, fixed in the earth, and drawing 

 their nourishment from it by their roots. Touching 

 these, we may consider, first, the structure of their 

 parts ; and then their nutrition and generation, 



