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SEEDS. BUDS, BULBS 



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Sect. IX. 3. r. 



of reproduaion, which in a leaf-bud produces the lateral or paternal 

 offspring, and in a flower-bud the feminal or amatorial one. Fourth- 

 ly, a center of nervous influence, as a brain, or fplnal marrow, or 

 common fenforium, exifts in each bud ; and probably rcfides near this 

 jundion of the blood-veflfels of the leaf and root, and of the abforbent 

 lyftem, along with the organ of reprodudion in the caudex o-emm^. 



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I. The bulbous roots of fome perennial herbaceous pi 

 and the root-fcions of other perennial herbaceous plants, are 

 in this refpea, which diftinguiflies them from buds ; that tl 

 generated on the broad caudex of the plant within the ground 



fim 

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d immediately fhoot down th 



w roots into 



the earth. Whereas buds are formed above the foil on the lono- 



trees, and 



dexes, which conftitute the filaments of the bark of 



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new roots into the earth from the lower end of thefe 



gated caud 



Bulbs have not improperly been called fubtcrraneous buds ; and like 



them they may be divided into leaf-bulbs and flower-bulbs 



Wheii 



p-feed is fown, it prod 



a fmall plant the firfl fum 



mer 



which in the autumn dies, and leaves in its place one or more bulbs 

 Thefe are leaf-bulbs, which in the enfuing fpring rife into ftron^^e: 

 plants than thofe of the firfl year, but no flowers are yet (venerated 



the autumn thefe perifh like the form 



d leave in their pi 



rents. 



lea^-bulbs flronger, or more perfedl:, than their preceding pa 



fucceffion of leaf-bulbs continues for four or five yea 



Th 



fary for fern 



th the bulb acquires a greater perfedion or maturity, neccf 



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d produces in its place a large fl 



bulb in the centre with feveral fmall leaf-bulbs around 



pre 



This fucceffive formation of leaf-bulbs in bulbo 

 vious to the formation of a flower-bulb is cnrior 



ted 



fly 



to 



the produaion of leaf-buds on many trees for feveral years before the 

 produaion of flower-buds ; thus the apple-trees, pyrus malus, which 

 are raifed from feeds, generate only leaf-buds for ten or twelve years, 



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