Vegetable Staticks. 155 



without a circulation, arifes from hence, 

 viz. that it is too precipitate a courfe, for 

 a due digeftion of the Tap, in order to nu- 

 trition : Whereas in animals nature has pro- 

 vided, that many parts of the blood {hall 

 run a long courfe, before they are either 

 applied to nutrition, or difcharged from the 

 animal. 



But when we confider, that the great 

 work of nutrition, in vegitables as well as 

 animals, ( I mean, after the nutriment is got 

 into the veins and arteries of animals) is 

 chiefly carried on in the fine capillary vef- 

 fels, where nature feledts and combines, as 

 /hall beft: fuic her different purpofes, tne fe- 

 deral mutually attracting nutritious particles, 

 which were hitherto kept disjoined by the 

 motion of their fluid vehicle; we mall find 

 that nature has made an abundant provifion for 

 this work in the ftructure of vegetables \ all 

 whofe compofition is made up of nothing elfe 

 but innumerable fine capillary veflels, and glan- 

 dulous portions or veficles. See VoLW.p. 265. 



Upon the whole, I think we have, from 

 thefe experiments and obfervations, fuffici- 

 ent ground to believe, that there is no cir- 

 culation of the fap in vegetables; notwith- 

 standing many ingenious perfons have been 



induced 



