Vegetable Staticfa. * 



ried about in their proper channels, accord- 

 ing to the different fecretions that are to 

 be made from them : And in what pro- 

 portion the recrementitious fluid is convey- 

 ed away, to make room for frefli fuppliesj 

 and what portion of this recrement na- 

 ture allots to be carried off, by the feveral 

 kinds of emun&ories and excretory duds. 



And fince in vegetables, their growth and 

 the prefervation of their vegetable life is 

 promoted and maintained, as in animals, 

 by the very plentiful and regular motion 

 of their fluids, which are the vehicles or- 

 dained by nature, to carry properliutriment 

 to every part 5 it is therefore reafonable to 

 hope, that in them alfo, by the fame me- 

 thod of inquiry , confiderable difcoveries 

 may in time be made, there being, in ma- 

 ny refpeds, a great analogy between plants 

 and animals. 



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