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Sect. V. 6. 



AND VEINS. 



»uri(hment of other buds in their bofoms 



the proditdion and nour 



thefe brakes, which are the lungs of the frudliflcation, prepare th 



juices for the nourifliment of the pericarp and its included feeds 



It of the corol with its anthers and ftigmas, as thefe 



but 



but 



not for th 



many flowers exift before the produ6l 

 colchicum and hamamelis. 



. Another circulation of vegetable j 

 parts of flowers, including the nedaries and 

 the vegetable blood 



of the floral-leaves, as in 



fls in the fexual 



I 



is expofcd to the influence of the air, and pre- 

 pared for the fecretion of honey, which is the food or fupport of the 

 anthers and ftigmas, as treated of in the fcdion IV. V. i. and in Sec- 

 tion VII. 4. In t^efethe progreflion and circulation of the fluids muft 

 be caufed by the power of abfarption, which we have fhewn to be a 

 o-reater force than that of the heart of animals. 



4D 



V 



4th. The progrefsof the fluids imbibed by tegetable ladeals from 

 the earth, and by their lymphatics from the air, and from the fur- 

 faces of their internal cells, is evidently began and carried on by the 

 power of abforption of their terminating mouths, and the annular 



contra6lion of their fpiral fibres. 



5th. And laftly, the wonderful force with which the fap^uice is 

 drank up and protruded in the umbihcai vcflels, which expands and 

 iiourifhes the buds of trees, and which forms the wires of ftrawberries 



above ground, and thofe of potatoes under ground, with 



th 



o;reat 



ty of bulbs and root-fcions, is to be afcribed to this fmgle princi 



pie of abforp 



Except that fome of thefe long cylindric veffel 



evidently compofed of a fpiral line, as mentioned in Sedl. II. 7. and 



hich may by th 



^ 



contradion of this fpiral line carry 



fluids they have abforbed with great force either in a forward 



1 



Q 



rade direction. 

 6. Finally I conclude, that the branching abforbents of the 



ite at the lower caudex of each bud, before it rifes out of the c 



and 



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