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SEEDS, BUDS, BULBS. 



Sect. IX. 2. 2. 



rity 



Thus Mr. Ferber afferts, that he was delighted in obferving 



the buds of hepatica, and pedicularis hirfuta, yet lying in the earth, 

 and. in the gems of the fhrub daphne mezereon, and at the bafe of 

 ofmunda lunaria, a perfed plant of the future year difcernible in all 

 its parts ; thus alfo in horfe-chefnut the leaves, and in cornel-tree the 

 flowers, are each diftindly vifible during the winter in their refpec- 



buds. Amcen. Acad. Vol. VI. No. CXX. Mil 



Did. A 



Gemma 



While in buds of many other trees, and probably in all the more 



backward buds, which 



formed late in the fummer on th 



parts of branches, and much deprived of light and air, the embry 



and 



thofe (hrubs or 



fo forward as to be eafily difcernible 



which are deciduous in this climate, and yet have no apparent 



buds 



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the philadclph 



mock 



orange, 



viburnum, and 



many (hrubs. I fufped there is neverthelefs an embryon fecreted from 

 the blood at the foot-ftalk of each leaf, though it is not fo forward 



bark, and produce a prominent bud, or 



refpe6t to trees, 



imates, in which 



protrude through th 



hybernaculum. The fame I fufped to occur in 



armer 



as I can not conceive 



which lofe their leaves in winter, 



they are faid not to produce autumnal bud 



by what means frefh leaf-buds can be generated in the fpring, whe 



the leaves, which conftitutc the lungs of the mature living part of th 



tree, are dead ; and the whole of that mature living part, or laft year' 



bud, confequently dead along with them 



But if the caudex of 



bud be generated without the plumula, or vifible bud 

 ly produ(^e a plumula for itfelf in the enfuing fp * 



as IS 



fee 



by the produaion of new buds, when a branch is cut off, round th 

 remaining trunk, as is done frequently to the flems of -willows. 



In fimilar manner the viviparous offspring ofdifFere 

 at different flates of perfedion before they 

 foals can ftand ered in an hour, and quickly learn to ufe their ey 



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as calves 



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and to run after their mothers ; while th 



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