126 VEGETABLE ORGANOGRAPHY, 



BOOK II. 



OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ORGANS, OR THE ORGANIC 

 PARTS ESSENTIAL TO NUTRITION. 



The organs which I call Fundamental are those which 

 serve for the nourishment of the individual plant, and 

 which cannot, consequently, be wanting in any of them, 

 though, by some particular combinations, they may 

 sometimes be very small, or difficult to be recognised. 

 These organs are, in vascular plants, the Stem, Root, and 

 Leaves ; and in cellular plants we shall see that they 

 seem more or less confounded in a single body. We 

 shall commence by studying them in the Vasculares, 

 where they are generally very distinct, so that we may 

 endeavour afterwards to form an idea of the Cellulares, 

 where these distinctions are scarcely or not at all 

 admissible. 



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