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vegetables float in the water, as many kinds of sea-weed, 

 and are never attached to the soil. 



Questions. What is physiology ? What does vegetable physiology 

 treat of? What human ? What classes does the kingdom of nature 

 embrace ? What other division ? What is meant by organic bodies ? 

 What by inorganic ? How are organic bodies divided ? How do or- 

 ganic and inorganic bodies differ from each other ? How do they 

 differ as to form ? as to size ? as to their number of elements ? as to 

 their mode of combination ? as to the shape of their particles ? as to 

 the changes they undergo ? as to the mutual dependence of parts ? as 

 to the kinds of elements ? as to their general properties ? How as to 

 their mode of growth ? of disease ? What is the grand distinction 

 between the two classes of bodies ? How are organized beings divid- 

 ed? How do animals and vegetables differ? How are vegetables 

 nourished? What is vegetable matter composed of ? Do animals or 

 vegetables possess the greatest amount of fluids ? What animals have 

 been mistaken for vegetables ? 



