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cortex or bark, liber, and wood, constituting the anato- 

 mical systems or sheaths. 



c. The third stage is that of the caudex proper or the 

 trunk, in which the three tissues have separated in the 

 direction of the longitudinal axis into root, stalk or stem, 

 and leaves, these making up the organs proper or mem- 

 bers. The inflorescence divides into two stages, into 



flower and fruit. 



d. The fourth stage or that of the flower repeats root, 

 stalk and leaves, in seeds, pistil and in the corolla. 



e. The fifth stage or that of the fruit is a further re- 

 petition of these three parts of the flower in the nut, 

 plum and berry, unto which, as synthesis, comes the 

 apple. 



A. Vegetable-trunk. 



1046. The vegetable-trunk is the development of the 

 three fundamental processes up to their complete se- 

 paration or substantial representation. It divides itself 

 into the tissues or the pith (parenchyma), into the shaft 

 and into the trunk. 



1047. The plant is a galvanic water-vesicle, and as 

 such earth, water and air. Upon this vesicle it is, how- 

 ever, the earth-element that chiefly acts. While the 

 earth seeks to encroach upon the vesicle, the magnetic 

 process becomes active therein, and it enters into oppo- 

 sition with the air. The vesicle becomes now determined 

 by two elements, by the earth and by the air ; it stands 

 itself in the category of the water. 



1048. The plant may be characterized as organic 

 water which is polarized upon two sides, towards the 

 earth and the air. The vegetable vesicle must therefore 

 maintain two poles. While it would represent in itself 

 the magnetic pole, it endeavours to identify itself, to 

 obey gravity and merge into the darkness towards the 

 mediate point of the earth ; but that it may remain a 

 galvanic pole, it becomes excited by the air, strives to 

 become a Different and to attain the light. 



1049. The vegetable vesicle receives two opposed ex- 



