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VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



J RE AT ED NATURE, by fucceffive Seeds, with the 

 affiftance of the elements, modifies Earths into Fegetables, Ve- 

 getables into Animals^ perhaps not contrarywife : fhe refolves 

 each of them again into £«r//;5, in a perennial increafmg circle, 



2. VEGETABLES have life, without voluntary motion. 



3. They are commonly divided into three TRIBES. 



Thofewhofefeeds have One Cotyledon: Corn: 1,2,3- 

 Thofe with Two Cotyledons: Plants: 4, 5. 

 Thofe with No Cotyledon : the clafs of Clandeftine Mar- 

 riage : 6, 7, 8, 9. 



4. The NATIONS, which have fupplled this conflux of inhabitants, 



are principally 



1. PALMS. Princes, Vegetables of India, having a Spathe and a 

 Spadix, eminent for their prodigious height, beautiful 

 for their unvaried fimple perennial ftem, crowned with 

 an evero-reen tuft of leaves, and rich with the choiceft 

 treafures of fruit. Thcfe are tributary to the Primates, or 

 frji order of ani?nals j iti particular to the Prince their 



cohabitant, ^„^^ 



A 2 2, GRASSES. 



