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I. 



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'-'1 of le- 



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IS p 



At. 



h^ , 



V^ 



m\ 



ii 



H, 



"s of the vol. 

 i^d that 1 



It car. 



^^"> ^ut wbich 



'erent degrees 

 time like tlie 



1 poultry^ See 



ftem. NatiTO, 



i::ny herbace- 

 hus, dypfacus, 



idual vegetable 



fpinal marrow 



n, as 



> 



e 



fpoken of 

 joint appears 



-e is no 



divifioii 



of the caudei 



other creeping 



hernnap 

 bothrn 



brotlifs 

 ale d 



a 



. feen 



tocO' 



not '^^? 

 f trees P 



regnat« 











ley 



can 



\^f 



3 



t 



be 



teri^^ 



(jail 



-fhis 



\V 



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oil 



Sect. VII. i.?- 



REPRODUCTION 



loi 



however prod 



fufion of terms 



orms 



g- 



as mentioned above 



the eess of fnails and of 



te ofF- 



OD 



are properly an hermaphrod 



Another circumftance occurs in this paternal generation, which dif^ 

 fers from that of thofe hermaphrodite infeas above alluded to, which 

 is that though in vegetables the new embryon is generally produced 

 in the bofom of the leaf-flalk, which is believed to be its parent ; yet 

 new buds are occafionally protruded from almoft any part of the bark, 

 when the fummit of a branch is taken ofF, or the fide branches of a 



nutriment ; 



tree, fo as to admit light and 



and a fupply of more 



hence it would feem, that though hermaphrodite infeds poffefs bu 

 one male and one female apparatus for the produaion and receptioi 

 of the new entity or embryon, yet that in paternal generation the pro 

 lific fluid is occafionally fecreted in any part of the caudex of each in 

 dividual bud from its fummit on the branch 



of 



term 



th 



and that w 



a proper nidus can be found 

 which is fupplied with nutriment, and expofed to hght and air, tha 

 there t"he new embryon can adhere and grow ; although ^his occur 

 moft conveniently, and thence moft frequently, in the bofom of th 



leaf-flalk, wh 



prolific fluid is probably firft fecreted 



d th 



ment moft copioufly fupplied from the vegetable blood newly 



oxygenated in the leaf 



In this I fuppofe to confift the great difFe 



between paternal and fexual 



t) 



d that this mode of 



of th 



great 



reproduaion forms an exception to the general axiom 

 Harvey, ** all things from eggs." 



The exigence of a power of generation in every part of the caudex 

 of a vegetable bud from the fummit to the root is not only (hewn by 

 the new buds, which grow on the trunks of trees,, which were felled 



o 



le fp 

 afted 



but alfo from 



ftance which 



hich is, that whenever after many years any new 



buds or fcions grow from the ftock beneath th 



e 



CT 



C3 



ft, it 



fim 



parent flock 



} 



d not to the 



o 



fted fc 



alway 

 whicl 



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