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PART THE FIRST. 



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PHYSIOLOGY OF VEGETATION. 



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THE INDIVIDUALITY OP THE BUDS OF VEGETABLES. 



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.1. Vegetables are inferior animals. A hud torn from a tree will grow ; vines and 

 hawthorns fo planted. Many kinds of fruit ingrafted on one tree. 



2. The bark 



and branches of hollow trees remain alive. Caudex of herbaceous 'plants. Caudex 



cf buds. 



3. Which defc endings form a new bark over the old one. Thefe bark 



veffels occafionally inofculate. Upper lip of wounds of the bark grows downwards. 

 4. Flower-buds are individual beings ; do notfo certainly grow by inoculation as 



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leaf 'buds i are biennial plants like leaf-buds^ but die in autumn without enlarging 

 the fixe of the tree by their progeny. 5. In what vegetables differ from animals ; 

 they have not mufcles of locomotion j 7ior organs of digefiion. 6. In what they re^ 

 femble animals. They have abforbenty umbilical ^ placental y and pulmonary veffels ^ 

 arteriesy glands y organs of reproduction ^ with mufcles ^ nerves ^ and brain. 7. Vro- 



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The plumtday radicle ^ and caudex of a bud. 

 8. Buds and feeds are biennial beings. How -they differ. The dif union of the pith 

 difiinguijhes buds from each other ^ and thus evinces their individuality. 



grefs of a young bud, and of a feed. 



I. W E have fo accuftomed ourfelves to conflder life and irritability 

 to be aflbciated with palpable warmth and vifible motion, that we find 

 a renitency in ourfelves to afcribe them to the comparatively cold and 

 motionlefs fibres of plants. But to reafon rightly on many vegetable 

 phenomena we fliall find it necefiary firft to fhew, that vegetables 

 are in reality an inferior order of animals. 



U a bud be torn from the branch of a tree, or cut out and planted 



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