PHYTOGENY. '2:l\) 



1162. The development of the flower takes place 

 through differentialization, individualization, or complete 

 separation of the trunk-organs. The trunk indeed sum- 

 mons up all power in the leaves, to separate the three 

 vegetable tissues and represent each as a particular organ ; 

 only in this formation it does not wholly succeed ; for in 

 a leaf the ribs or tracheal fascicles are still held together 

 by cellular tissue. In the first place with the perfect 

 separation of the tissues or, properly speaking, with the ex- 

 organization of each of them unto an independent Whole, 

 the limit of the vegetation is attained and the growth 

 completed. This was the course of the whole of nature ; 

 in every system she has proceeded to individual consum- 

 mation of the factors, to their liberation from chaos; 

 and the developments of the systems were concluded, 

 so soon as all factors became independent, or so soon as 

 every factor had itself become an entire nature. Such 

 was the case in the genesis of elements, and such in the 

 metamorphosis of the earth-element into earths, salts, 

 Inflammables, metals. 



1163. This complete severance and individualization 

 can no longer be effected by the air, but must be 

 achieved by the light. The air is itself not the wholly differ- 

 encing element, but derives its potency only from the 

 light. All ultimate separation and individualization is 

 reserved for the light. 



1164. Root and stem are the water- and earth -plant, 

 the leaf is the air-plant, the flower is the light- or rather 

 fire-plant. 



1165. In the flower the problem has been solved, of 

 producing an entire plant simply by the light without 

 earth, water, and air, or as it were in a merely spiritual 

 manner. 



1166. The plant is a flower that has been posited 

 under three ideas, under the idea of earth, water, and 

 air. As in aether or fire all the elements are dissolved ; 

 so are all the elements of the plant in the flower. 



1167. The flower is truly, not merely in idea, the 

 whole plant with all systems and formations, posited 



