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ORGANS 



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Sect. VII. 2. 6. 



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barley-corn, which it adheres to ; in the day it ih 



forward th 

 as rt dries 



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d as thefe p 



prevent it from receding, it draws up its pointed 



end ; and thus, creeping hke a worm, will travel many feet from 

 parent ftem ; and may thus be ufed as a travelling hygrometer, w 



laid 



cloth on the floor, like the automaton of Mr. Ed 



defcribed in Botanic Garden, article Impatiens, Vol. II 



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The formation of the organs for fe 



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difl:in£lion to thofe for latera 

 animals, as the polypus, the 



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•ation, in contra*- 

 bles, and in fome 



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d'oeuvre, the mafler-piece of nature, as appears from many flyii 

 fe£ls, as moths and butterflies, which feem to undergo a o-eneral 

 change of their forms folely for the purpofe of fexual repnodudion-; 

 d in all other animals thefe organs are not complete till the maturity 



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whereas the lateral generation commences with th 

 erm or bud, as on the roots of young herbs, and 



ofth 



infancy of 



the flems of infant trees. 



There feems neverthelefs to be one circumfl:ance, in which the- fa 

 litary generation of the buds of plants, when the plants are at thei 

 maturity, is fuperior to the fexual generation by feeds. This confifls ii 

 the progeny of the former being more perfedt than that of the latter 

 in refped to the power of the reprodu6lion of their fp 



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 y plants, as in tulips and apple-trees, the young vegetable from 



the feed produces other bulb 



or 



bud 



lly to imp 



till 



1, for fome years, which feem 

 they acquire a puberty, if it may 



be fo called, and become furniflied with fexual organs for the purpofe 

 of feminal reprodudion ; whereas the leaf- buds, or. leaf-bulbs, of the 

 apple-tree and tulip during their firft years produce other leaf-buds, 

 or leaf-bulbs, rather more perfect than their parents; and when thefe 

 bulbs, and buds, arrive at their puberty, or maturity, fo as to be ca- 

 pable of fexual generation, their new bulbs and new buds alfo, 1 

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