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1509. A slight glance at the above table shows us the 

 procedure of Nature. The higher she ascends, the more 

 and more she separates, and thereby increases, the organs. 

 There may therefore be plants which have only a single 

 organ or tissue, as well as others, which possess all. 



1510. There cannot, however, be any plant which 

 could simply possess the higher without the lower organs. 

 Higher organized plants are not such therefore, by virtue 

 of their having some one organ more perfectly developed, 

 or separated into several parts; but through this, that 

 they actually possess several different organs. The higher 

 grade of organization depends accordingly not upon the 

 perfection of the Singular, but the number of the Diffe- 

 rent. The Perfected consists in the multiplicity combined 

 to constitute unity, but by no means in the simply homo- 

 geneous multitude of the parts. Numerous stamina may 

 render a corolla higher, but not on that account the 

 whole plant ; many digits may make a hand nobler, but 

 not on that account, the animal. But with many digits 

 also that hand is nobler, in which the digits are dissi- 

 milar. 



First Province. 



HISTOPHYTA ACOTYLEDONES. 



Devoid of, or without true spiral-vessels, leaves, corolla, and pistil. 



The vegetable kingdom ascends, in accordance with the 

 five main positions of the organs, by five stages ; these 

 are again separable into larger groups, which may be 

 called asexual and sexual plants. 



1511. The tissues are a something internal, being, as it 

 were, the viscera of plants or their parenchyma, which 

 does not meet the light, and can therefore have no light- 

 organs, which are developed only out of the foliage or 

 leaves. The anatomical systems and organs are tissues 

 that have become external, have attained to air and light, 

 and are hence developed into air- and light-organs. Now, 

 the light-organs are sexual organs. The Tissue-plants 



