88 VEGETABLE ORGANOGRAPHY. 



CHAPTER IX. 



OF GLANDS. 



The word Glanb {glandula; glande) signifies, in 

 animal anatomy, a secreting organ, that is to say, an 

 organ which elaborates a common nourishing fluid, a 

 peculiar juice or humour. The same signification 

 ought to be preserved in the anatomy of plants ; but it 

 must be confessed, that in these modern times, botanists, 

 guided by false analogies, have given this name to very 

 heterogeneous organs, several of which have not the 

 slightest resemblance to glands. At the commence- 

 ment of the science, the smallest tubercle was described 

 under the name of Gland. It is to Guettard that we 

 owe the most complete description of these organs ; but 

 it must also be acknowledged, that to him is due the 

 greatest part of the errors which have been, since his 

 time, repeated by all authors. He has also given the 

 name of Scaly Glands {glandulce squamosce ; glandes 

 Scailleuses) to the little scaly pellicles which are found 

 upon the leaf of the Fern, which are nothing more than 

 the coverings of their fructification. — (Vide Book III., 

 Chap. VI., Sect. 1.) 



The same author has applied the name Miliary Glands 



