ge 4853 
deal of air was obtained, but of fuch 
a bad quality as to extinguifh a 
flame, whereas the frefh leaves 
had yielded dephlogifticated air: 
which experiment feems to indicate, 
that the generation of the dephlogifti- 
cated air is owing to the action of 
the living plant. The fame refult 
was alfo obtained from. dry thay put 
into a jar full of a2EP water. | 
SECTION IX. 
All plants pues a power. of corredi- 
- ang, ina few hours, foul air unfit 
for refpiration; but only in clear 
= nee lights or in the fun Shine. ; 
THIS remarkable property of 
‘plants i is indeed very great; ; for in a 
few 
