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SCET.XIX. 6. 2. 



O^ FLOWERS. 



55 



which of them may fupply the moft nutrition to mankind, or to 

 other animals ? 

 It may be anfwered firft, that thofe vegetables, 



tables, which approach neareft 

 mod: likely to fuoply them vv 



;, or parts of 

 the nature of animal bodi'e 



are 



th the moft 



trim en t 



mufhroems. and the oluten of wheat, and 



& 



k 



Is. 



The former clafs. of 



fe 



ems to 



as the efcu- 

 s of feeds and 

 61 the animal 



an 



d 



/ere 



table kingdoms of nature, as fpoken of in Sed, XVII. 2. 5 



though many of them poflefs an acrid, and fome of them 



»« 



quality, it is probable that the former might be deftroyed 



d 



diminished, by the heat employed in cook 



Th 



fhould 



neverthelefs be attempted with due caution ; fince, though 

 one kind of vegetable acrimony, as that of water-crefl*es and of cabv 



bages, is much dimlnifhed or deftroyed by a boiling heat, yet that 



of the leaves of arum maculatum, and of arum arifarum, I found by 



experiment, was not decreafed by boiling. And a few grains of the 



powder of lycoperdon, puff-ball, have lately been recommended in 



epi 



qu; 



fit 



d may 



poffibly poffefs a powerful 



The gluten of wheat is fuppofed to approach towards th 



lymph of animal bod 



d 



lb 



ferred to in Se6l. XVi. 7 



dvertifed as an 



recommended as a nourifhment of th 



mentary powd 



d 



fuftenance of marchino; armies. 



moft portable kind for th 



And laftly the oils of vegetables 



approach much to a fimilitude with thofe of animal bodies. 



2. Secondly, It may be anfwered, that fince the chyle of all red 

 blooded animals is believed to 



be nearly fi 



cipally of fuf^ar, mucilaoe. and 



and to confift prin 



o 



the laft of which ingred 



nders it white by its infolubillty in water, and thence diftino-uifhes 



from the vegetable chyle or fap-juice of trees, which is tranfparent, 



d is believed to confift principally of fugar and mucilage without 



; thofe parts of vegetables which contain the greateft quantity of 



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