ated 



3' 



^^Hich 



ion of 



ul 



Pof, 



^^ of tl, 



e 



'OUS 

 DUgh 



^ plant 



^e then Ob, 

 ■b^^ a iimilar 



nuch milky 



:icuflioa had 



found by 



^vasdeflroj. 

 abh% whicb 

 rter'.vards no 

 J diicovered; 



and not the 

 .1 quantity of 



ted fuf* 



a coa 



rom 





^/cdinaday 

 I. XIV. 2. 3- 



- in 



the ex- 



7 



this 



fubj 



c 



. . :.ltabiW 



c' 



irri 



Sect. VIII. 3 



MUSCLES, NERVES, BRAIN. 



135 



by the pain or pleafure, which precedes or attends any animal aa 

 and therefore fuppofes the exiftence of 



comm 



fenforium : now 



/ 



,hen one divifion of a leaf of mimofa is injured by a wound or toi 

 1 a (hort time the whole leaf clofes, which is owing to the acl 

 f the diftant mufcles about the footftalks of the fubdivifions of th 



leaf. 



Does 



prove, that there is a brai 



or common fenfo 



Hum, where the nerves comm 

 leaf, as the injury of one diftant pai 



in fome pa 

 of it thus c 



of this bud or 



ffeds th 



hoi 



in 

 hi 



... other words, that the difagreeable fenfation is propagated from 

 part to the whole, and caufes the adions of fome diftant mufcl 

 the fame manner as I draw away my hand w ' 



h 



my fi 



Th 



mufcles placed about the foot-flalks of th 



leaves or 



leaflets of many plants, for the purpofe of clofing their upper furfac 



D 



ther, or of bending them down fo as to fhoot off the fhower 



dew-drops, as ir 

 and many trees. 

 calyx of many fl 



fenfitive pla 



mimofa ; kidney-bean, phafeol 



The claws of the petals, or of the divifions of 



furniflied in a fimilar manner with muf- 



h are exerted 



pen or clofe 



ol and calyx of th 



flower, as in tragopogon, anemone 



This adion of opening and clof- 



the leaves or flowers does not appear to be produced Amply by 



the mufcles themfel 



but 



th 



e 



connexion of thof( 



mufcles with a fenfitive fenforium, or brain, exifting in each individual 

 bud or flower, ift. Becaufe many flowers clofe from defedl: of fti- 



mulus, not by the excefs of 

 of the flimulus of light ; < 



{limu 

 food 



by darknefs, which 



by cold, wh 



th 



abf( 



the abfe 

 ;nce of 



f heat. Now the defect of heat, like the abfe 



of 



; 



f drink, affects our fenfes with pain, which had been pre 



fly accuflomed to a greater quantity of them 



fliivering may be excited in confequence of th 



pain 



d a cutaneous 

 : but a mufcle 



cannot be faid to be flimulated into adlion by a defeat of flimul 

 though fome modern writers on medicine have called cold a flimu 

 to animal fibres, which it always renders torpid or inadive ; a theory 



5 



derived 



