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longer fupply with a fcanty hand, immedi- 
ately changes her method, in order to con- 
vey nourifhment with a more liberal hand 
to her produ&ions ; which fupply daily i nr 
creafes by the greater expanfion of the 
leaves, and confequently the more plentiful 
attraflion and fupply of fap, as the greater 
growth and demand for it increafes. 
We find a much more elaborate and 
beautiful apparatus, for the like purpofe, in 
the curious expanfionsof blolfoms and flow- 
ers, which feem to be appointed by Nature 
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, furniflied with its 
Seconding, Corion and Amnion , (which new 
fet fruit may in that ftate be looked upon as 
a comp! eat egg of the tree, containing its 
young unhatched tree, yet in embrio) then 
the bloffom falls off, leaving this new form- 
ed egg, or firft-fet fruit in this infant ftate, 
to imbibe nourifhment fufficient for it felf, 
and the Foetus with which it is impregnated : 
Which nourifhment is brought within the 
reach and power of its fuftion by the ad- 
joining leaves. 
If 
