BOOK II. 



OF THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF VEGETABLES, 

 OR THE ANATOMY OF THE PLANT. 



Jc ROM the previous survey of the vegetable struc- Division 

 ture, it appears that the organs into which the plant organs! * 

 is externally distinguishable are the root, trunk, 

 branches, leaves, flower, and fruit, with their append- 

 ages. But the organs which are thus discoverable 

 by external examination, are themselves reducible to 

 component organs, which are again resolvable into 

 constituent and primary organs. According to this 

 view of the subject therefore, the plant consists of 

 three distinct sets of organs, which we shall call 

 the Decomposite,, the Composite, and the Elemen- 

 taryor final result of the analysis of the other 

 two. 



