•Vlii, 



^0 ^vL 



f^ulu 



\ve 



^t^sbei 



softt 



e 





^niou of the 



id of drofera* 

 ^d of the nn. 



pa£l ; that i 



IS 



» 



•t mufcles are 

 it they po 



nicated to the 



approach tlie 



male, I alk, 



crmas in other 



kind of 

 of love 1 



becaufe a 



nous 



-tion 



> 



.11 another or- 

 amourettes 



>rife of f^^l^ 



> 



t to its 



fource 



to 



thefei^^^^' 



-ilasofP^^' 



kindo 



) 



a 



q w 



ers 







fcol' 





the 



3 



Sect. VIII. 9. 



MUSCLES, NERVES, BRAIN. 



139 



flowers for their own hufbands ; and bending into contaa wi 

 become ouilty of adultery. See Sed. VII. 2. 2. of this work 



9 



Th 



befides a kind of tafte or appetency at the extremities of 

 their roots, fimilar to that of the extremities of our ladeal vefTels, for 

 the purpofe of feleaing their p'roper food ; and befides different kinds 

 ■ of irritability or appetency refiding in the various glands, which fep 



s^etabi 



h 



honey,' wax, refin, and other juices from their blood 

 fe feems to poffefs an organ of fenfe to diftlngulOi the variations of 

 eat, another to diftlngulfti the varying degrees of moifture, another 

 of light^ another of touch, and probably another analogous to our fenfe 

 of fmell. To thefe mufl be added the Indubitable evidence of their 

 paffon of love, and of their neceifity to fleep ; and I think we may 

 truly conclude, that they arc furnllhed with a brain or common fen- 

 forlum belonging to each bud 



o 



But whether this brain, or common fenforium, refides in the me- 

 dulla, or pith, which occupies the central parts of every bud and leaf, 

 like the fplnal marrow of animals, has not yet been certainly deter- 

 mined. By this medulla Is meant only the pith of each individual 



\ 



bud 



that which is feen in the center of 



which, like the 



wood which furrounds it, has long ceafed to have vegetable life. 



The pith, or medulla of each bud, is fuppofed by its elafliclty to 

 pufh out the central part of the bud ; as the veficular produ6llons oil 

 the infide of young quills are fuppofed to pufli forwards their early 



owth, and In fome birds are fald by Mr. Hunter to receive air from 



the lung 



It is more probable that this pith, or medulla oblong 



of plants, fupplies the fpirlt of 



(ince it exifts 



buds 



their moft early ftate, and does not communicate from one bud 



another, and thus dlftingulfh them from each other, and 

 their individuality. See Se61:. I. 8. and IX. 2. 4. 



evinces 



T2 



PHYTO 



I 



