T.vr 



) 



proceed 



reel 



into 



r-nb 



our 



^ It 



y a ve. 



^snot 



^^^s ; as the 

 >»al heat. 



^i»g the fac. 



them, or by 



5 fruit ; thus 



er, they be- 



many pears 



it of baking ; 



3Ugh not the 



This chemi- 



worth being 



its elements 



od might be 



ind ! 



:ood, that not 



getable p 

 . but that 



e 



eds; 



:ars m 

 .t-juice 



the n- 



) 



a 



Ice 



the ve- 

 er fee^ '^ 



in 



D 



Its 



r 



oots 



thus 



illt" 



its 



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Sect. VI. 6 



SECRETIONS 



79 



A 



quicker growth to rival its neighbours in their contentions for air, and 

 light, and moifture, which are neceffary for its exiftence. 



VI. I. The produ6lion of honey is perhaps one of the moft im- 

 portant vegetable fecretions, except that of the prolific farina from the 

 anthers ; and of the favilla, or new embryon, in the axilla of the leaf. 

 The crlands for this purpofe, or certainly the refervoirs, which con- 



the honey after it is fecreted 



many flowers vifible to th 



imperial, fritillaria imperi 



in monkf- 



hellebore 



It is neverthelefs 



naked eye; as in crown^ 

 hood, aconitum napellus ; 

 probable, that this refervoir of honey is frequently placed at a diftance 



the o-land, which fecretes it, for the purpofe of preferving it 



from 



from infeds and from 



w 



hich 



often efFeded both by 



complicated apparatus, and by an acrid or poifonous j 

 aconites and the hellebores above mentioned. 



very 

 1 the 



As the neflary 



honey-gland, always falls off along with th 



corol, 



d anthers, and fligmas ; thefe appear to be parts or appen 



daees to each oth 



in 



th 

 th 



corol, 



d th 



The vegetable blood is expofed to the air 

 is oxygenated or prepared for the fecretion of 



important fluid ; which I fuppofe 



reabforbed, and fup 



plies nourifhment to the anthers and ftigmas. Some acrid juices, and 



are at the fame time fecreted from the blood thus 

 ) corol ; which feem defigned as one kind of de- 



ed 



parti 



oxygenated in the corol ; v^ 



fence againfl the depredations of infeds on this important refervoir of 



honey. 



2. The univerfality of the production of honey in the vegetable 

 world, and the very complicated apparatus, which nature has con- 

 ftruded in many flowers, as well as the acrid or deleterious juices (he 



furnilhed thofe flowers with, as in th 



protect th 



oney from 



d from the depredations of infedls, feem to im 



ply, that this fluid is of very great importance in the vegetable eco 

 nomy ; and alfo that it was neceflary to expofe it to the open air pre 



reabforption into the vegetable veflels 



In 



y 





