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their hydrogenous import, they pass over into the inflam- 

 mable asphalts, and through these unto sulphur. Metal 

 and sulphur have, in the Geogeny, announced themselves 

 as the precursors, or harbingers, of the vegetable world. 

 In this respect, also, can the vegetable kingdom be re- 

 garded as the mineral kingdom, that, having continued 

 to grow, has become alive. The ore, which becomes 

 organic, becomes carbon or plant. 



PARTS OF THE PLANT. 



1041. The character of each development consists in 

 the separation of the Indifferent or Chaotic into its ideas 

 or actions, i. e. the development of every system is first 

 completed, when it is divided into as many substantial 

 systems as it numbers factors, or has processes in 

 itself. 



1042. Although the plant is only essentially a plane- 

 tary-organism, it must yet be developed unto an sether- 

 or light-organism ; and it therefore divides into planetary- 

 and solar- or light- organs. 



1043. The planetary organs are those that have the 

 earth-, water-, and air-process above them, and which are 

 made known in the root, the stalk and foliage, which 

 together constitute the vegetable stem. 



1044. The light-organs begin to be stirring in the 

 blossom, and are divulged as sexual organs. They are a 

 repetition of the trunk. 



1045. The vegetable body divides therefore into two 

 great principal parts, which are synotypes of each other, 

 into 'trunk and blossom or inflorescence. If we regard the 

 vegetable trunk empirically; it is then divisible into 

 three stages, whereof each consists of the organs of the 

 three fundamental processes, which seek to separate from 

 each other. 



a. The first stage is that of the three tissues namely 

 of the parenchyma, medulla or pith ; of the cells, ducts, 

 and tracheae or spiral vessels. 



b. The second stage is that of the shaft or main axis, 

 where these three have separated concentrically into 



