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We are not in a position to decide between them ; 

 however, the second, which is chiefly based on em- 

 bryogeny and has analogy unquestionably to support 

 it, seems to us the more accurate of the two. Con- 

 sequently we shall adopt it in the parallel we are about 

 to establish between plants and animals, although 

 Professor Owen has chosen the first. Besides, the 

 two theories tending equally to associate the facts 

 proved in both kingdoms, the ideas we are about to 

 put forward will, in the main, be those already pub- 

 lished by our illustrious confrere ; but the form will be 

 slightly different, and therefore we shall be led to 

 certain considerations overlooked by our predecessors. 



We have seen that the tree resembles the polypi- 

 dom not only in form but in its complex nature. 

 Neither is a simple being. The individual vegetable 

 or animal is the fundamental element in each; both 

 form colonies — How do these colonies increase and 

 multiply ? Here the analogies we spoke of are seen 

 in the clearest manner. What do we first see when 

 a new branch is about to be added to 'the existing 

 ones ? — A bud. What announces the appearance of 

 a new polyp on the stalk of a Goryne ? — A bud 

 also. 



In both cases the colony's new guest, the new 

 individual, is but a simple accumulation of organizable 

 matter, developed at some point in the common 

 system, constantly receiving additions from the vital 

 stream, and which is fashioned by the vital forces into 

 either an animal or vegetable. 



In most cases the Coryne's bud becomes an asexual 

 polyp, provided with long tentacles, and a capacious 

 digestive apparatus. Unfit for the purpose of repro- 



