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Sect. I. 5, 6. 



as the leaf-buds above defcrlbed, though they are probably not fo eafily 

 capable of tranfplantation into the bark of other trees by inocula- 

 tion ; as, I believe, it is fron^ the miftake of the gardeners in choofmg 

 flower-buds infiead of leaf-buds to inoculate with, that fo many buds 

 die in this mode of propagatipn. Nor does the exigence of many 

 male and female parts in one flower deftroy its iiidividuality any more 

 than the number of paps of a fow or bitch, or the number of their 

 cotyledons, each of which during geflation belongs to a feparate 



fetus. 



The flower- buds as well as the leaf-buds are properly biennial 



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plants, as they are produced in the fummer of one year, and perifli 



I next ; but as the new buds generated by leaf- 



mn of th 



buds continue to adhere to the parent, they are furnifhed with their 

 numerous caudexes, which form a new bark over the old one, whereas 

 the flower-buds generate feeds, which when mature fall upon the 

 ground, and thus they die in the autumn without increafing the fize 

 of the parent-tree by the adhefion of their progeny like the leaf-buds. 



5. Thefe buds of plants, which are each an individual vegetable 

 being, in many circumftanccs refemble individual animals ; but as ani- 

 mal bodies are detached from the earth, and move from plaxze to place 

 in fearch of food, and take that food at confiderable intervals of time, 

 and prepare it for their nourishment within their own bodies, after it 

 is taken ; it is evident, that they mufl require maay organs and powers, 

 which are not neceflary to a ftationary bud. As vegetables are im- 

 moveably fixed to the foil, from whence ihey draw their aliment ready 

 prepared, and this uniformly, and not at returning intervals ; it fol- 

 lows, that in examining their anatomy v/e are not to look for mufcles 

 of locomotion, as legs and arms ; nor for organs to receive and pre- 

 pare their aliment as a mouth, throat, ftomach, and bowels, by 



which contrivances animals are enabled to live many hours without 

 new fupplies of food from without. 



6. The parts, whiclx we tnay expert to find in the anatomy of 



vegetables 



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