PULMONARY ARTERIES Sect. IV. 5. 6. 



mate penHi in autumn ; while the new buds remain to expand in th 



fuing fp 



Secondly, that the bra6les, or floral-leaves, are th 



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f the pericarp or uterus, 



d to the crrowine 



& 



contains, 



braa 



1 



imp 



d th 



the ftem of th 

 ift above its flo^ 



feed 

 impe 



hich 

 frit 



)wers. And thirdly, thai 

 the corol or petals are the lungs belonging to the anthers and ftigmas 

 which are the fexual or amatorial parts of the plant, ai 



d to th 



taries for the fecretion of honey, and to the other glands which affords 

 eflential oil and wax. 



Laftly, the ftamina and ftigma with the petals and nedary, which 



con flit ute the vegetable males. 



lies, and the amatorial part of the fcma 



t 



as they in fome plants appear before the green leaves or bradles, as 

 colchicum and mezereon, and in all plants fall off when the fem 



uterus is impregnated 

 different both from th 



Id 



ppear 



be diftin6l 



a 



ally 



leaf-buds, which prod 



a 



pa 



P 



geny ; and alfo from the bradtes with the calyx and pericarp, which 



ftitute the vegetable 



They muft at firft receive nutriment from the vernal fap-juice, like 

 the expanding foliage of the leaf-buds, or 



;, or the bra6les of the fl 

 But when the corol becomes expanded, and conflitutes 



buds. 



pulmonary organ, the vegetable juices are expofed to the air in the 



extremities of its fine arteries beneath a moift pellicle for the purpofe 

 of greater oxygenation, and for the important fecretion of honey; 

 and then the anthers and ftigmas are fupplied with this more nutri- 

 tious food, which they abforb from its receptacle, the nedlary, after 

 it has there been expofed to the air, and are thus furnifhed with 



greater irritability, and with the 



flary amatorial fenfibility, and 



like bees and butterflies on that nutritious fluid. See Sed. VII 



II. 4. 



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