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VEGETABLE STRUCTURi:.. 
In tills Gland alfo are fecretcd the Juices, which give the Flower k-s 
colour ; for the Petal while young is green, juk as the Rind from which it 
riles : it has form firk, and colour afterwards. 
The three outer Petals being pulled off, and the whole Rind wdth them, 
the Blea of the Plant appears : this is continued up to the bafes of the in- 
ner Petals ; and forms them iuft as the inner Bark did the others. 
These being removed in the fame manner, we have only the thick line 
round the bafe of the Receptacle, with the Fringe, and inner Petals of the 
doublenefs I ff. There arc three parts to form thefe ; for there yet re- 
mains a Stal/., compofed of the Fleffiy Subftance, covered by the Vafcular 
Series, tlio’ diveffed of three coverings, and lined with its Conic Clullers, 
and its Pith. 
If we feparate the thin Vafcular Series, this brings away the thick line 
round the Receptacle ; then taking the Flcfliy Subkancc.from its lining, 
the Pith, we bring away the entire Fringe, i. The Conic Cluflers termi- 
nate in the Receptacle itfelf. 
The Flefliy Subkance of the Stalk runs up to a fmall height beyond 
tile Petals, and there divides itfelf into the Filaments, which compofe the 
ITinge. Its whole fubkance goes off into them. They are formed of 
bundles of its Vtffels covered with a Film, from their own extravafated 
Juice. The part above thefe is the Receptacle of the Seeds, an oblong 
Bud, formed merely of the Conic Clukers j and covered with a Skin of a 
fpungy Subkance, made from its drying Juices. On this rck the Rudi- 
ments of Seeds, conflituted of the Pith ; which, in the double kate of 
the Plant, make the fmall inner Petals. 
This Plant being confidered as a third Stage in the Vegetable Orders, 
may ferve, after the inkances of the firk and fecond in the Colchicum, 
and Aconite, to explain entirely the courfe of the Juices in Vegetables, 
and the manner of their growth ; and a juk confideration of its Fabrick, 
after the knowledge of the more fimple krudure of thofe other two, will, 
1 perfuade myfelf, fhew the truth of that fykem here propofed, which 
adopting, and uniting the two formerly received, ekablifhes the growth of 
Plants upon the force of a Circulation of their mok effential Juices ; and 
their Nourikiment and general OEconomy, in a great meafure, upon that 
Evaporation and Abforption by their Leaves, which has been fuppofed to 
fet afide the other. 
In all Plants a watery nourikiment Is received continually by, the Roots; 
and during the night by their Leaves. The part of this proper for jhe in- 
.creafe of the Plant is fecreted, and after two or three concodions, deliver- 
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