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Sect VII. 



REPRODUCTION. 



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there could he no mules, or any rejemllance to the mother 

 threefold vegetable mules applied to animal generation, 1 



'The new df^rine of 

 Conclufion. ■ 



The theory of Linneus in refpea of the reproduaioti of 



O 



bl 



that th 



edullary part mud be joined with 



the external or cortical part of the pi 



for the purpofe of prod 



2 a new 



If the nieduUa be fo viororous as to burfl through 



ffels, and thus mix with the cortical p; 



IS or roots of vegetable 



bud 



P 



therwife the 



duced either on the branches or roots 



medulla is extended, till it terminates in the piftiUum, or female part 



of the flower J and the cortical part is llkewife elongated, till it term' 



the anth 



male part of the flow 



d th 



the fe 



cundating duft from the latter being joined to the prolific juices of 



It the fame time th 

 d the outer bark int 



the former, produces the feeds or new plants ; 

 inner rind is extended into the corol or petal, ai 



the calyx. 



After the feeds are thus produced, the parent bud dies ; and in this 



refpea the buds bear a very great analogy to thofe annual infeasjwhich 



forth painted 



wing's and organs of reproduaion, and after depofing their eggs ceafe 

 to exift. See the account of the vegetable kingdom by Linneus, pre- 

 fixed to the fyftem of vegetables tranflated by a botanical fociety at 

 Lichfield. Leigh and Sotheby, London. 



However fimple and ingenious the firft part of this theory may ap- 



chano-e from their caterpillar or larva-forms 



putting 



which the medulla is fuppofed to extend itfelf. 



pear 



the inclofing or cortical part, and 



burfts 



joining with that produces a new- 

 bud ; yet it feems too mechanical for a living organized fyftem ; and 

 fo totally different from any thing we know of fexual produaioii 

 cither in animals or flowers, as not readily to fatisfy a reafoning 



mind. 



Every new fluid or folid produced 

 ble or animal bodies is fecreted from their blood, as the various fluids 



in the organic fyftem of vegeta- 



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of 



