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Sect. IX. 



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BUDS, BULBS. 



171 



In a few roots of hyacinth 



which I this day examined, Septe 



ber 



the ftem of one, which had apparently flowered 



the fu 



mer, was perfedly decayed in 



the center of many new bulbs 



I 



other bulb of lefs fize and compad, which I fuppofed had not bor 

 a flower, I found a central flower-bud inclofed in many concentr] 

 flefhy bafes of former leaves, like an onion in the^autumn, which had 

 been fown in the preceding fp 



And concluded from hence, th 



the hyacinth 



dies annually or biennially lik 



leaving 



behind it a fucceffion of leaf-bulbs or of flower-bulbs 



The caud 



and 



ke roots of the ranunculus cultivated by 



florifts dies I believe annually, after having put forth a circle of n 

 claws from the upper part of it round the bottom of the perifh 



>m Hence.the claws of the old root, which became fliri\ 



/ 



d th 



d 



flower-ftem. 



led, as the flower advanced, in the autumn difappear 



cayed part of the old caudex is (een beneath the new claw-like roots, 



which I fuppofe bas given occafion to fome inaccurate obfervers to 



believe, that the old flem in this and fome other perennial herbaceous 



plants was drawn downwards by the new root fibres; while the bulbs 



of the iris have been fuppofed to have been pufhed upwards, like the 



lamb-like baromctz, by the refinance of the foil to the elongation of 



the root-fibres ; which lafl feems to be a much 



probabl 



than the former. 



From thefe obfervations 

 which incircle the ftems of bulb-rooted plants, are the lungs to th 



it appears 



that th 



leaves. 



d 



more leaves are to the bud of 



and that 



dex with thefe leaves, and the root-fibres, conftitute a vegetable 

 ^..ng; which produces a viviparous progeny of new leaf-bulbs, or a 

 feminiferous progeny in flower-bulbs, with a magazine of nutriment 



bei 



flefliy bafe of each leaf 



d tbat the tulip produces only leaf 



bulbs for four or five years from the feed, and then but one flower 



bulb with many leaf- bulb 



lly 



But that the onion-kind, al- 



lium 



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three flower-bulbs in the firfl fummer from 



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