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parts. The blossom in the animal is therefore in the 

 beginning also nothing but seeds or ova. Thus these 

 animals are asexual. Such as the Infusoria, whose body 

 directly divides into new animals, like the fungi. 



2001. The second floral organ is the capsule, which 

 contains on its borders or dissepiments the seeds, and on 

 its apex the stigma, or the opening of the cyst. 



2002. So also in the succeeding forms of animal life 

 the animal capsule or uterus originates. The orifice 

 corresponding to the stigma is the mouth of the womb ; 

 the seeds upon the septum become ovary. 



2003. The lowest animals, as the Polyps, are funda- 

 mentally none other than such an uterine system. The 

 polyp's mouth is the os uteri ; the sac formed by the 

 polyp's body is the uterus, in which ova-cysts or ovaries 

 develop, that open into the margins of the mouth. 



2004. In such animals the uterus and intestine, as 

 likewise the mouth and uterine orifice are fundamentally 

 one organ; nutritive matter and ova are also one in 

 kind. External tegument as branchial organ is at the 

 same time also a tegument of the uterus. 



2005. The higher animals are distinguished from the 

 lower by separation of all these intricate and, as it were, 

 coalesced organs. 



2006. Digestion, respiration and nutrition, growth 

 and propagation, are originally of one kind. But with 

 further development come the male parts also, along with 

 the organs. 



Parallelism of the Animal and Vegetable Body. 



All vegetative systems of the animal body being now 

 developed, the attempt to co-ordinate them with those 

 of the plant admits of being made. 



2007. What the sexual parts correspond to in plants, 

 needs no exposition. 



2008. And just as little that the lung is the parallel 

 organ to the leaves or foliage. The relation of the other 

 organs is, on the contrary, difficult ; the striking resem- 

 blance, however, of the sexual parts and the lungs to the 



