*• Vli. 



1. 



J. 



° ••'e (h,.. 



■te 



lele 



I Off, 



) 



K\ 



us 



) 



^, 





15 



'"^ttli 



C 



^^^e bud 



sof 



irtobe 



pro. 

 pro. 



^^^em with 



a 



^*s beautifully 

 »d in thofe of 



-s. The la. 



plant 13 



new 



I another and 

 rounds isex» 



'ound ill the 



mach to the 



3 



•emlty, while 



;ding ad inii- 

 called gourd- 



)Ut 



J> 



end, each 

 of digeftion 

 vidently ap- 



e 



app 



aratus 



the embryon, 

 this rer 



in 



es 

 re 



froro 



fen^blea b/ 



^2 IP 



an^ct' 



(T 



fpring' 



Sect. VII. I. 6,7 



REPRODUCTION. 



99 



fDrlncr, as a veo-etable rlfes from a feed, and produces a viviparo 

 offspring for many generations like the fucceffive buds of a feedlii 



tree, or of a feedling tulip ; and then it generates both mal 



apple-tree, or 



and females, which copulate and depofit egg< 



- ftio-mas of flowers, and their confequent feed 



like th 



th 



d 



pe 



feedli 



D 



ppl 



d on feedling 



hich at length ap' 

 ips ; as is further 



fpoken of in Sed. IX 



7 



nd XIV 



6 



6. Whence I conclude, that in fexual viviparous generation 



tj 



th 



e 



new entity, orembryon, is fecreted by the male, and received into a 

 nidus prepared for it by the female, and nourifhed by fluids fecreted 

 into the uterus, as they are required, which is probably owing to the 



J 



ilimulus of the fetus againft the fides of it ; that in fexual oviparou 



generation a refervoir of nutriment is prepared, and inclofed 



in th 



e 



e 



g 



thi 



previous to the reception of the embryon, which is fecreted by 

 male, and depofited in this refervor of nutriment ; becaufe the 



fetus in thefe animals is to be feparated from the parent before its du 

 maturity ; and the egg, in which it is inclofed, may be confidered a 

 an uterus, or womb, feparated from the mother. And laftly, tha 

 in paternal or male generation the new entity, or embryon, is as cer 



ly fecreted from a gland of the male, but probably remains 



adapted 



fcrvoir belon 



c"'& 



this gland, correfpondent to th 



It 



fts 



licul2e feminales of mod viviparous animals, and that here 



like the cicatricula in the egs;, and has a refervoir of nutriment pre 



pared for it like th 



to fupp 



wh 



the paternal 



leaf-bud by its death is feparated from it in the autumn, as the egg is 



feparated from its living mother. 



7. The produdion of buds in the axilla of every leaf may thus be 



eafily conceived, as th 



or 



new buds are furniflied with their caudexes 



# 



bark-filaments over thofe of their dead parents, which flioot out 



fibres beneath in the enfuing fp 



and that I fuppofe both 



deciduous plants and in evergreens ; as in the latter alfo I believe th 



parent leaf-bud 



lly falls off, though 



by the immed 



O 



fluencc 



