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the leaves, having no mere air to 
elaborate, refembles almoft the or- 
ganization of an animal, which 
lofes its life by becoming exhaufted 
through the Joffes fuftained by the 
increafe of the various excretions 
which‘ are carried on in its body, 
af, thefe: loffés are not repaired by 
‘taking in new nouriffiment. 
~ FYegetables feem to draw the moft 
“part of their juices from the earth, 
by their fpreading roots; and their 
phlogiftic matter chiefly fromthe 
atmoiphere, from which they ab- 
“forb the air as it exifts. They ela- 
borate: this air in the fubitance of 
_ their leaves, feparating from it-what 
“is warited fortheirown nourifhment, 
iz. the phlogifton, and throwing 
“out the remainder, thus deprived 
_ of its inflammable principle, as all 
= ~excrementitious “fluid, ‘and: in. this 
= fiate 
