17^ 



, BUDS, BULBS. 



Sect. IX. 3.6. 



ful hot an in- 



d of the root having been chopped, or bitten off, to feme f. 



Pl 



major, and 



d has h 



c> 



^en to fcabiofa fuccifa the name of devil's-bit, morfus diabol.. 

 6. The bulbs already mentioned, as thofe of tulips, hyacinths, a 



properly the winter-cradles, or hybernacula, of the you 



plants, wheth 



their ieaf-bulb or flower-bulb ftat 



d are fu 



Oied with a magazine or refervoir of nourifhment for the -rowino- 



embryon 



ppears in the fquil, fcilla maritima, wh 



from this fource of nutriment in the drugo-ifts (h 



h 



termed tuberous 



i 



But th 



n-Q are 

 fifl folely of a large refervoir of liutriment for the growth and 



as of turnep and 



(hment of the rifing ftem and future feed 



h 



thefe 



...^ wx.wg xc^ixi auu lULuic jceas ; wnetner thele are 

 produced in the fame year, as occurs, when the feeds are fown early 



g; or when their vegetation 



and proceeds again in the enfuing fp 



is flopped by the cold of 



Ily 



eps, the roots of which I am well informed may be much 



larged by tranfpl 

 In thefe plants th 



See Sea. XII. 6. 



by expofing the vegetable blood 



fluence of the air, prepare It for the fecretion of 



knobby 



he fame manner as nourifhm 



referved in the concentric flefhy bafes of the leaves of 

 thefe plants, 



produced 



d 



as in th 



d 



kind, th 



bafe of th 



ftems, wither and d 



hich furround 



as 



bud 



bulbs 



put forth leaves of their own for the purpofe of oxygenatin^r th 

 blood. Thus '- ' . . ^ ^ ^^ 



carrot, 



It appears, that the ftem and flower of th 

 ep, is a new plant, not arifing immediately fi 



or 



feed which was fown, but from the leaf-root or leaf-knob, if it mav 

 be fo called, which preceded the produd" 



f the flower-bud 



flower-ftem, exadly as the flower or ear of wheat, which was fli.w. 

 in Sea. IX. 3. I. to have three or four fucceffive leaf-buds precedino- 

 the flower- bud. ^ 



From thefe obfervations may we conclude, that no flower-bud or 



flower- 



i 



I 



'\. 



