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Sect. IV. 5. 3. 



AND VEINS, 



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QfF, and the beantiful large white petals change their colour to a deep 

 green, and gradually thuo become a calyx, inclofing and defending the 

 ripening feeds ; hence it would feen^i that the white veffels of the 

 corol ferved the office of expofing the blood to the adion of the air, 

 for the purpofes of feparatingor producing the honey, wax, and pro- 

 lific duft ; and when thefe were no longer wanted, that thefe veffels 

 coalefced, like the umbilical veffels of animals after their birth, and 

 thus ceafed to perform that office, and loft at the fame time their 

 white colour. Why fhould they lo-fe their white colour unlefs they 

 at the flime time loft fome other property befides that of defending 

 the feed-vefl'el, which they ftill continue to defend i 



Sixthly, neither the common green leaves nor the brades are ne- 

 ceffary to the progrefs of the corol, and ftamens, and ftigma, or to 



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the fecretion of honey, after the laft year's leaves are fallen off, as is 

 evinced by the flowers of colchicum in the autumn, and of crocus in 

 the fpring, in both which the feeds rife out of the earth with their 

 common leaves and bra6les fo Idng. after the difappearance of the 

 flower. In deciduous plants the com-noti green leaves ferve as luno-s 



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in the fummer and autumn to each individual bud, which then pro- 

 duces the new buds in its bofom, which are either leaf- buds or 

 flower- buds. In the enfuing fpring the new common leaves are 

 the refpiratory organ beloi'^ ''g to the leaf-buds, and the bra(5tes are 

 the refpiratory organ to the pericarp, and its included feeds before or 

 after ia.pregnatiou ; and the corols, as loon as expanded, become the 

 lungs to the amatorial parts ot the fr u6lificatioii, and require neither 

 the green leaves nor bra(ftcs. 



3. Hence the vine bears fruit at one joint without leaves, and 



the other joint with ut fr 



Hence the flower of th 



hicum rifes out ot the ground without brad^es or otb 

 nd flourishes rill the feed is in 



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f the ground on the ftem 111 th 



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maturity to the pericarp and feed.; andtheoth 



lattd; and the bra61:es, which nfc 

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