are soon discovered ring*, which are at 'first very' 5; 

 and very close. They spread themselves insensibly every ' 

 *.vay. New kings, a new heart, a new stomach, disci o e 

 themselves, a:rd \vilh them a number of o;her organs.' 

 Tliis piece, winch is newly produced, is extremely slender, 

 alid altogether disproportion^] to the part on which it 

 grew. We. may imagine that we see a worm gtowitfg, 

 that is' ti raited at the end of this stump, endeaVonrisiij 

 to lengthen it. This little vermiform appendage fiflflMds 

 itself slowly. At length it equals in thick-ness ilie piece 

 from which it was cut, and exceeds it in length. It can 

 no longer be distinguished from it but by its colour, 

 Which is somewhat ilsujter. 



Mere then i.s a new orpawcal whole, which gr^'.v/. ffotat 

 an ancient one, an'J constitutes the same body ; there u 

 an animal slip that grows, and expands itself on the 

 stump of an animal, as a vegetable- slip does on the 

 trunk of a tree. Remark -that the flesh of the pifccfc cut 

 off does not in the least contribute to the formation of 

 the part regenerated; the stump only nourishes the' 

 bud ; it beinr the soil in which the latter "vegetates, 

 The part then t;> t is reproduced passes through 'all the 

 .degrees of growth, by which the \entre animal itself 

 Irad before passed. It is a real animal, which pre-ex- 

 feted in a very minute form in the great animal that 

 served it for a matrix. 



Vegetable productions exhibit to us- the same con- 

 sequences. If a tree be topped, that does-not lengthen 

 the Hunk of it : but it sends forth a* multitude of buds, 

 in e ch o! which a little tree is comprised; for the bud 

 or branch that springs- from it is a tree that is grafted 

 on the t'link that nourishes it, 



Every seed in like manner comprizes a plant in mina- 

 ture, On every slib* inspection, we may \ ry easily dis- 

 cover the siaJk, \\ >Md root of this littlfe-pl'anf ; bat 

 the curiosis rr -r, and distinguish, in a bul- 



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