^^.Vii. 



I 



i. 



Wers 



asi 



^'s bef, 



^fe. 



T 



oreti^ 





e 



m 



la 



Ps mall til 



e 



as fo 



on as til 



e 



^§ to be per. 



ind filame 



^igma and 



le 



e 



of the femal 



is are Impreff* 



'ow the moths 



lire the pafEoa 



lofe the power 

 ; nouriOiedby 



ne6lary 



1 IS, 



that the 



[,ey leave thei 



1 







be 



for the repro- 



ith honey li'^^ 

 ^ary begins its 



jucehouey.^^ 

 , and the 6^ 



flowef' 



1 



eiits 



> 



a 



nati'^ 



aiii^ 



in 



for«« 



/ 



ea 



f^bu^^'. 



as 



111 



colc 



bicii^ 



Sect. VII. 2.4 



REPRODUCTION 



III 



colcbicnm autum 



by the brakes, o; 

 long before the ( 



d dapb 



mezereon 



and 



IQ 



otbe 



floral 



rhubarb, which are expanded 



P 



of the fl 



the feeds at 



fame time 



{ling in the vegetable womb yet unimpregnated, and the duft yet 

 unripe in the cells of the anthers. After this period the petals become 

 expanded, which have been fhewn to conftitute the lungs of the 

 flower ; the umbilical veflels, which before nouri(hed the anthers ^nd 



the fl:igmas, coalefce, or ceafe to 

 blood more oxygenated by th 



fh them ; and they acquire 



obtain the pafli 



d power of 



produaion, are fenfible to heat, and light, and moifture, and to m< 

 chanic flimulus, and become in reality infefts fed with honey ; fim 



lar in every refpe£l: exci 

 male flowers of vallifneria 



pt that all of them yet known but the 

 continue attached to the plant, on which 



they are produced. 



So water infers, as the gnat, and amphibious animals, as the tad- 

 pole, acquire neW aerial lungs, when they leave their infant ftate for 

 that of puberty. And the numerous tribes of caterpillars are fed upon 



the common juices of vegetables found in th 



they 



quire the organs of reprodu6t 



on ; and then they feed on honey, all 

 1 believe except the filk-worm, which in this country takes no nou- 

 rifhnient after it becomes a butterfly. And the larva or maggot of the 

 bee, according to the obfervations of Mr. Hunter, is fed with raw 



table matter, called bee-bread, which is collefted from the an- 



D 



thers of flowers, and laid up in cells for that purpofe, till the magg 



l)ec 



omes 



winsred bee 



o 



acqui 



fenfibility 



d 



fed with 



honey. Phil. Tranf. 179 



Lailly, though the filaments and flyle, as well as the corolla and 



clary, belong to the fe^^ual organs of vegetabl 



yet 



th 



thers alone of th 



H 



pofiefs the 



mma, and fligmas alone of the plfl:illa, which 



po 



d I 



ppofe the paffion of reprodud 



as 



appears from the mutilated filaments of many flowers, as of curcum 

 of linum or flax of this country, of gratiola^ and hemlock-leaved 



& 



ranium 



i 



