

8 



INDIVIDUALITY 



Sect. I. 8. 



the alburnnm, as in the vine, vitis ; the birch, betula ; and the maple, 



; which I fuppofe to become oxygenated in the circulation of the 



acer 



fetus by the horizontal air-veffels of the bark. 



the leaf-bud puts forth a pk 



ren of the atmofph 



As the feafon advances, 

 feed, which ftimulated by the oxy 



k 



ri 



fes 



P 



rd 



fl 



& 



acquire its adapted pabulum, which leaves con- 

 Ifo protrudes from its long caudex, which forms 



lew bark over th 

 paiTes downward 



dicle, which ftimulated by moif 



d defcends into the earth to 



q 



adapted pabulum ; and it thus becomes an adult vegetable being with 



/ 



i power of producing new buds. 



The flower-bud under fimilar circumftances puts forth its 



floral- leaves, which ferve the office of lungs to the pericarp and 



braa 



caly 



d expands its petals, which ferve the office of lungs to th 



thers. and fli^m 



o 



hich 



the fexual organs of reprod 



dth 



and which die and fall off, when the feed is impregnated ; ai 

 like the leaf-bud, it becomes an adult vegetable being with the po\\ 



of producing feeds. 



8. As the flower-bud produces many feeds during the fummer, 



•, as may 



leaf- bud prod 



many budlets during the fumme 



fo 

 be 



feen in the Ions: ffioots of the vine and willow, vitis et falix. In this 

 climate both the buds and feeds are properly biennial vegetables ; that 



J next. But the 



it drops on the 



ey are produced in one fummer, and perifli in th 



feed differs from the bud 



this circumft 



that 



in 



h 



earth, and is thus feparated from its dead parent 



whereas the bud continues to adhere to its dead parent, and g 



m 



over 



it as it ad 

 Now as th( 



1 pith of a bud appears to contain or prod 

 ke the brain and medulla oblongata, or 



the living principle, 1 



marrow of animals, we have from hence a certain criterion to dift 



guiffi 



bud from another, or the parent bud from the num 



budlets 



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