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While 



1 Water; 



other 



and 



mteftines. 

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vermi. 



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It is formed, 

 lentatloa ; it 

 parating k. 



not yet been 

 ftanceofani- 

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f the water 



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bfofbed by 



the phof- 

 the otber 



without 



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Sect.X. I. 5,4 



MANURES. 



189 



to revert to a 

 teftines. 



ftuid {late from their aerial one in the ftomach 

 and to he then ahforbahle by the la^eals or lymph 



3. What then is the food of vegetables 



the embryoii plant in th 



feed 

 mater 



fruk is furrounded with faccharine, mucilaginous, and 



like the animal fet 



the ess or 



forbs. and converts into nutriment 



which it ab 



while the embryon buds of d 



duous trees, which is another infantine flate of vegetables, are fup- 

 plied with a faccharine and mucilaginous juice prepared for them at 

 the time of their produaion, and depofited in the roots or fap^wood 

 of their parent-trees; as in the vine, maple, and birch ; which fac- 



charine matter is foluble and mifcible with the water of the furround 



earth in the fubfequent fp 



d 



forcibly abforbed by th 



veffels, and expands their nafcent folia 



In their infant 



ftate therefore there is a wonderful analogy be- 



ous to obferve- 



crermination of 



d 



par 



malt by the 



tween plants and animals ; ai 



in the procefs of converting barley 



the feed, that the meal of the barley is in part converted into fugar 



by the digeflion of the young plant exadly as in the animal flomachv 



The wonderful efFeft of vegetable digeftion in producing fugar may 



be deduced from th 



great produift of the fu 



& 



pie-tree in America, mentioned in Se6l. III. 2\ 3 



and of th 

 d the won 



derful efFea of animal dio;eftion in producing fugar appears in patients 



r 



ho labour under diabet 



A man in the Infirmary of Stafford, wh 



drank daily an immoderate quantity of beer, and who eat abov 



oided fi 



J quantity of food that thofe in health confume 



hteen pounds of water daily, from each pound of which abo 



or 



f coarfe fugar was extra^ed by evaporation. Zoonomia, Vol. I 



Sedt. XXIX. 4. 9 



4 



We now come to confider the food of adult plants ; and in this^ 



pro- 

 The former are poffefTed of a flo- 

 mach, by which they can in a few hours decompofe the tender parts 



nfifts the great and eflential difference between the nutritive 

 fifes of animals and vegetables. 



of 



