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form. The elongation is not a mere protraction of the 

 vesicle, but an apposition of new vesicles. For it hap- 

 pens through polarization, and thus by infinite repeti- 

 tion of the primary vesicle. The plant is thus a body of 

 infinitely numerous vesicles. 



1057. In so far as the plant is a multiplication of the 

 primary vesicle, it consists of Cellular tissue^ The ana- 

 tomy of plants informs us, that there is nothing origi- 

 nally in the plant but cellular tissue, and that other 

 forms first emerge or make their appearance in the 

 sequel. 



1058. The cellular tissue indicates the Indifferent in 

 the plant, for it is only an accumulation of the indiffer- 

 ent primary vesicles. In so far as the plant consists 

 thereof, is it indifference water-plant. 



1059. The cellular tissue is only oxydized, desiccated 

 mucus. Chemistry has proved, that the wood is only 

 oxydized mucus. 



1060. The cellular tissue being the water organized 

 and saturated with earth, or the organized mucus, has 

 consequently the chemical function in itself of solution, 

 homogeneous production, or formation of mucus. As 

 therefore the plant originates, so does it enlarge. It 

 originates as vesicle, and its growth is a constant origi- 

 nation of vesicles ; from the Indifferent, which is the 

 water. The sap contained in the cells consists of water 

 and starch-granules, which constantly move therein in a 

 circle. 



1061. The fundamental form of the cells is the 

 rhomboidal- dodecahedron (Kieser's Phytotomie) ; for 

 around a globe only 6 others of equal size can be 

 placed, whereby its 6 lateral surfaces are pressed in, 

 which during the induration impart to it the form of a 

 six-sided column. Above and below these 7 globes only 

 3 others admit of being placed, whereby 3 point - 

 converging surfaces originate, which thus complete the 

 middle globe as rhomboidal- dodecahedron. 



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