I. 



av 





e 



e 





, th 



off] 



gar 

 ough 



mple 

 ere a 



leir other 

 ^) which 

 quality of 



''»A-e, and 



jfetheoil 



principal 



I 



e it 13 ex- 

 from the 

 from the 



barley and 

 ftly, from 



3 are 



nutriment 



to the na- 

 ,eir greater 



D 



fed to tbe 

 .vhich \v 

 tber !«"- 







? 



an 



a evei^ 



tbei 



ts 



. the 



. hot or 

 f vege- 



nuti^' 



mo: 



iti\'^' 



Sect. XIX. 6.3. 



OF FLOWERS. 



555 



materials 



readily feparated from them 



contain along with 

 d with their falutary ones, a 



f they do not 



th 

 d 



w 



fome noxious 

 ch cannot be 



J* 

 m 



Though the parts of vegetables, which poffefs much oil, fu 



a 



may afford more exped 



nutrition, as 



ey 



ftitute the ingredient? of the chyle of all red-blooded animals ; yet 



other materials, which appea 



be fo readily 



into fugar or into mucilage, 



as 



perhaps 



fupply an equa 



Thus by the procefs of germination, as 



quantity of nutriment. 



when, feeds of barley are converted into malt, and when roots p 



flore-rooms 



of onions or potatoes 



th 



e 



far 



con- 



fiding of meal or ftarch, is in part converted into fugar, and in part 



lar to this procefs of germination appears to be 



muci 



fim 



that of ripening, by~ which the auftere juices of fruits are tranfmuted 

 into fweet ones ; and alfo the culinary procefTes of baking or boiling, 



by which the auftere juices of unripe pea 



hanged 



fw 



by the appli 



of h 



as mentioned in Sedl. VI. 5 



B 



other more expeditious converfion of vegetable materials into fug 

 by the digeftion of animals, which may be truly termed a facch; 



rine 



procefs 



ppea'rs in thofe, who labour under diabates 



porating the urine of one of thefe pat 



fixteen ounces of im 



pure fugar were daily extra6led for fome time. Zoonomia, Vol, I. 

 Sea. XXIX. 4. 



r 



Hence, though the oily kernels of nuts, walnuts, almonds, and 

 the oily feeds of flax, hemp, rape, may contain moft expeditious nu- 

 triment ; and next to thefe the faccharine fruits of figs, dates, rai- 



r 



fins, and the fweet roots of beet, mungel-worfal, ground artichoke, 

 helianthus tuberofus, parfnip, carrot, may contain expeditious nu- 

 triment. Yet the more farinaceous feeds, as of wheat, peas, rice, 

 barley, oats, and buck-wheat, polygonum fagopyrum, and the roots 

 of potatoes, which contain ftarch, and flour, and mucilage, which 

 are convertible into fugar in the ftomachs of animals, and are pro- 



4B 



bably 



