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ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



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6. To be infer ted at the end of Se^. X. 5. 3 



Phofphorated lime is faid to be found in the greateft quantity in 

 wheat, where it contributes to the formation of the gluten, which 

 is thence not improperly denominated by fome writers animal glu- 

 ten ; which in rainy years has been obferved by Witwer to be in 

 fmaller quantity Diflert. II. p. 103. Hence the ufe of bone-aflies as 



w 



a manure for wheat, as obferved by Mr. Kirwan, Effay on Manures^ 

 P- S3* 



7. To be inferted at the end of Se£f, VI. I o. 



Befides the various fecretions above defcribed Brugmanns is faid 

 by Humbolt to have Ihewn, that plants void an excrement hke ani- 

 mals, which might be noxious to them, if retained; that he put 

 the plant, lolium, ray-grafs, into a glafs of water, and obferved daily 



of the roots a fmall drop of a vifcous mater 



the extremities 

 hich he detached and found to be renewed 



day 



But 



th 



s I lufpe6t to have been produced by the death and confequ 



- - 



decompolition of the extremities of the roots in their unnatural fit 

 tion. Jburn. de. Phyfique Delametherie, T. IV. p. 388. 



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8. To be inferted at the end of Sedl, XIV. 4. 2, 



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In the Tranfadions of the American Philofophical Society there 

 is a paper (hewing, that the water-rats of that part of the country 

 fo liable to be affeded with tape-' worm, as is fuppofed 



s. In this country many animals, 



m 



d 



minifh their numbe 



as 



I bel 



dogs, cats, and geefe, as well as the human fpecies, are afflii3:ed with 



. Gould fon>€ of thcfe difeafed American rats be 



this intell 



nemv 



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