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fluence of the cold of autumn. But how long; a twio; or fcion of 



the vine or willow, fucceed each other, fonae producing em- 



bryon buds in their bofon:is before 



others become expanded 



not 



fy to underftand ; but the embryons of all thefe new leaves, thougl 

 not of the buds in their bofoms, probably exifted in the paternal womb 

 though in different degrees of maturity, which accords with the ob 

 fervations of fome naturalifts on the fucceffive generations of the vol 

 vox globator, which Linneus afferts to be diaphanous, and that it car 

 lies within itfelf fons and o-randfons to the fifth generation, but whic 



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are probably living fetufes produced by the father, of different de 

 of maturity, and to be detruded at different periods of time lik 

 unimpregnated eggs of various fizes, which are found in poultry 



Zoonomb, Vol. I. Sed. XXXIX. 2. 



Vermes. Volvox. 



In fome trees however, as in the vine, vitis, and in many herbace 



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heat, fouthiflle, teafel, triticum, fonchus, dypfac 



fucceffive joint of the pla 



dently an individual vegetable 



beino- ; becaufethe pith, which conftitutes the brain or fpinal marrow 

 of each individual, terminates at every joint by a divifion, as fpoken of 

 in Sea I. 8. whence in thefe vegetables every fucceffive joint appears 

 to be produced by that beneath it ; whereas where there is no divifion 

 of the pith, the twig feems to be fimply an elongation of the caudex 



of the leaf-bud, like the w 



of ffrawberries and other creep 



ther, it is believed, that they can not impregnate 



It fhould neverthelefs be added, that there are many hermaphrodite 

 infeds, as (hell-fnails and dew-worms, which contain both male and 

 female organs of generation ; and as they are perpetually feen to co- 



pulate with each 



themfelves. 



both male and female organs of generation, and that they can imp 



nate themfelves, and that thus the new buds might be termed an 



hermaphrodite offspring rather than a paternal one. This would 



however 



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