VEGETABLE KINGDOM. ^. 



9. FUNGUSSES. Vagabonds, Plants of the Autumn, Barba- 

 rous, Naked, putrefcent, rapacious, veracious. Thefe 

 at the Fall of the Leaf are fu^portedby the recrements of other 

 plants. 



5. TEXTURE of vegetables confifts of Fluid-hearing Veffelsy 



Air Vejjclsj 

 Secretory Refervoirs. 



6. SUBSTANCE of vegetables, which covers their Pithy confifls of 



a Cuticle externally covering the Bark-, which bark depofits 

 on its interior fide the Rind; which is converted annually into 

 rigid Wood. 



7. The principal PARTS of vegetables are three : 



Root defcending, abforbing moifture, nourijhing. 

 Herb afcending, breathing the air, moving. 

 Fructification expanding, inhaling ether ^ producing feeds. 



8. ROOT, inferted into the moift earth, puts forth capillaryi^^o/- 



lets, often joining above into a folid Stock defceyiding beneath the 

 earth, or even afcending above the earth. 



9. HERB annual, committed to the air, confifts of the Hybernaclc^ 



Trunk y Leaf Prop : 



Hybernacle a compendium of the whole Plant, fcaly: 



Bulb from the bafes^ of the paft leaves. 



Bud from the rudiments of the future leaves. 



10. TRUNK, elevating the Herb and the Fructification, ( the 



Branches are Parts of the Trunk) is either 



Stem of the Flerh leafy. 



Culm of Grafs: often knotted with empty joints. 

 Scape of the Root leaflefs, flower-bearing. 

 Peduncle a flower-bearing Branch of the ftem. 

 Petiole a leaf-bearing branch, proper to the leaf. 

 Stipe not diflin(£l from the Leaf: in Pah?is and Ferns. 



11. LEAF expanding its furface to the air, waving, often on a 



petiole. 



Leaflet a part of a cofnpoiwd Leaf. 



Frond a Leaf made from a ftipe : in Palms and Ferns, 



in. PROP 



