35^ Of Vegetation. 



a fcanty hand, immediately changes her me- 

 thod, in order to convey nourifhment with 

 a more liberal hand to her produ&ions > 

 which fupply daily increafes by the greater 

 expanfion of the leaves, and confequently the 

 more plentiful attraction and fupply of fap, 

 as the greater growth and demand for it in- 

 creafes. 



We find a much more elaborate and beau- 

 tiful apparatus, for the like purpofe, in the 

 curious expanfions of bloflbms and flowers, 

 which feem to be appointed by Nature not 

 only to protedt, but alfo to draw and convey 

 nourifhment to the embryo fruit and feeds. 

 But as foon as the Calix is formed into a 

 fmall fruit, now impregnated with its minute 

 feminal tree, furnimed with its Secondine, 

 Corion and Amnion, (which new-fet fruit 

 may, in that ftate, be looked upon as a com- 

 plete egg of the tree, containing its young 

 unhatched tree, yet in embryo) then the blol- 

 fom falls off, leaving this new-formed egg, 

 or firft-fet fruit, in this infant ftate, to im- 

 bibe nourifhment fufficient for itfelf, and the 

 F&tus with which it is impregnated : Which 

 nourifhment is brought within the reach 

 and power of its fudlion by the adjoining 

 leaves. 



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