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ment to the different circurnftances of her 

 produ&ions. For in this embrio ftate of the 

 buds a fuitable provifion is made to bring 

 nourifhment to them in a quantity fufficiem 

 for their then fmall demands : But when 

 they are in fome degree increafed and formed^ 

 a much greater quantity of nourifhment, is 

 iieceffary, in proportion to their greater in- 

 creafe : Nature, that (he may then no longer 

 fupply with a fcanty hand, immediately 

 changes her method, in order to convey 

 nourifhment with a more liberal hand to her 

 produ&ions; which fupply daily increafes by 

 the greater expanfion of the leaves, and con- 

 fequently the more plentiful attraction and 

 fupply of fap, as the greater growth and de- 

 mand for it increafes. 



We find a much more elaborate and 

 beautiful apparatus, for the like purpofe, in 

 the curious expanftons of bloffoms and flow- 

 ers, which feem to be appointed by na= 

 ture not only to proteft, but alfo to draw and 

 convey nourifhment to the embrio fruit and 

 feeds. But as foon as the Calix is formed into 

 a fmall fruit, now impregnated with its 

 minute feminal tree, furnifhed with its 

 Secondine 7 Corion and Amnion, ( which 

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