ILLUSTRATIONS 



ERRATA. 



Page 29, top line, read " of the common." 



- 34, seventh from bottom, for " evolves," read " involves." 



49, in the reference to Fig. 18, read " the following spring." 



82, thirteenth line, for " back," read " bark." 

 t- 94, fourth line above note, read " Tectonia." 



- 193, twelfth line from top, for " outlets," read " rootlets." 



211, third line from top, for " on," read " in." 



~ 221, bottom line, for " and are," read " which expedient is." 



indirectly, to all that live. 



Vegetables are organised beings endowed with mo~ 

 lability, which is called life, but without sensation, 

 unless their powers of contractility and irritability 

 may be so deemed. They are formed of elements 

 fitted for expansion recipients of nutrition labora- 

 tories of divers qualities capable of reproduction 



and at last dissolvable into their first principles. 



