■T.IV 



a 



branch 



esbin 



afli 



?loi 



^ot rife 



s 



1 



S^'^ion 



of 



Efface of tiij 



^••^ generat 



eartli ; 



e 



e 



^e round the 



appearance 



e 



CO. 



mal and 

 have been 

 d r y , * ' Late 

 pring, ktis 



e grain up 



US of wheat 



) 



' times in the 



lanaged, that 



brought 



into the 

 ill gene- 



or 



own 

 it, vv 



r 



fOot-fcioDS, 

 thed up 



3r ear 



rles 



Miller of 



.66, and on 



:aken ^? 



[ 



/ 



ail 



d 



f I 



\ 



Sect. IX. 3. 7 



SEEDS, BUDS, BULBS 



S 



produced five hundred plan 



from one grain of wheat was 21 109 



The number of 



th 



which meafured th 



produced 

 •ee pecks 



d three quarters of com, weighed forty-feven pounds feven 



and were 



P 



3 



eftimated at 57684 

 See Sea. XII. 6. 



Philof. Tranf. Vol. LVIII 



N 



is th 



fupported by th 



y of other vegetables 



which new roots are liable to fhoot in great abundance from th 



either alone or along with new bud 



if 



joints 



moifture is prefented to th 



proper d 



of 



Thus if the ftem of a potatoe be laid 



down upon the earth, and covered with foil over the firft joint, a new 

 feries of roots will be protruded from that joint ; and afterwards — 



th 



feries of roots from the fecond joint, if managed in th 



fame 



manner 



and 



aflerted that this will occur even if the potatoe 

 {iemlare taken out of the ground, when they are fix or eight inches 



high, and deprived of all their youn 



and tranfplanted, fo 



to 

 duced 



two joints, and that a great crop has been thus pro 



The rapid growth of fome grades, and of fome fpecies of the 

 volvulus, and of colt's -foot, is well known, and very troublefo 



many fituations 



Of thefe very minute parts of the jointed root, 



when cut from the parent, elongate themfelves, and (hoot up new 



From th 



ery 



fcribcd by Mr. Miller 



merous divifions of the wheat 

 may be fufpedlcd that fomething fim 



d 



this 

 mine 



mu 



ft h 



happened, which furth 



obfervations muft deter 



Vines alfo are thus liabl 



to flioot out roots at their joints 



d 



fia-trees when covered only with a (hred of cloth in naihng them 



& 



f it be accidentally kept moift 



And th 



is 



pple 



hich is called a burr-apple, becaufe it puts out roundifh pro 



excrefcences of the bark like a burr, which if th 



even torn off, and fet in the moift earth 



tuberances or 

 branch be bent dow 



or 



ill 



