122 



ORGANS 



OF 



Sect. VII j. 3. 



part of one to the lower part of the other, by means of a glafs-tube,. 

 and retahiing them thus for fome time in conta£l with each other,, 

 the two divided extremities united, and became one animal.- 

 The attentive reader has aheady anticipated me in applyii 



«r thefc 



derful modes of 



eprodudion and^ conjundl 



to 



the lateral propagation and in graft ment of vegetables. The junftioa 

 of the head-part of one polypus to the tail-part of another is exadly 



on 



th 



flock of anoth 



reprefented by the ingraftment of a fcion 



tree. The plumula, or apex of each bud, with the upper part of 

 Caudcx, joins to the long caudex of the flock,, which paffing do' 

 the trunk terminates in the radicles of it. And if this compound ' 

 getable could be feparated longitudinally from tne other long filament 

 of the bark in its vicinity, like the fibres of the bark of the mulberry 

 tree prepared at Otaheite, or as the bark of hemp and flax are pre 

 pared in this country, as the young ones of the hydra flentorea fepa 

 rate from their parents, it might claim the name of a lateral or pater 



m 



as above mentioned 



3. It hence appears, that every new bud of a tree, where two fcions 



over each other on a flock, if it could be feparated 



have been inferted over ea( 

 from the plume to the rad 

 of caudex, and might therefore be called a triple lateral m 



mufl confifl of th 



difi^e 



th 



h 



it follow 



th 



ry part of this new 



pie 



kinds 

 And 



udex. 



mufl have been feparated or fecreted laterally from the adjoining par 



of the trunk of th 



d th 



It 



Id not be formed,, as I for 



i* 





merly believed, from the roots of the plume of the bud defcending 

 from the upper part of the caudex of it to the earth. A circum- 

 flance of great importance in the inveftigation of the curious fubjed 



ef th 



t» 



of vegetables, and of infed 



One might hence fufpeO:^ that if Blumenback had attended to th 

 propagation of the polypus, which he had compofed of two half po 



i, that 



young progeny mi 



o 



have poirefTed 



re- 



fembli 



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fen 



in 



pof 

 the 



as < 

 the 



fen 



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