VEGETABLES 
^REATED NATURE, by a fucceflion of feeds, with the 
aififtance of the elements, modifies Earths into Vegetahles, 
'vegetables into Animals; and refolves each of them again into Earths', 
m a perennial increafing circle. 
VEGE'1 ABLES have life without voluntary motion. 
They confift principally of a Root, inferted into the earth and ah- 
orbing moifture ; a Trunk rifing above the earth, generally fpreading 
into branches beating leaves, and fupporting the friiflification : in 
Bfalles it is called a culm; and when it fupports the frudlification, but 
the leaves, a /ca/f. ' 
A perfedl Flower conlifts of a 
. exterior covering of the flower, derived from the bark : 
fr A- ^ perianth, when contiguous to the other parts of 
udttfication ; involucte, when remote from the parts of fruaification, 
fe plants: glume or hujh, the outer covering of the 
eds of grafles: fpathe, an outer covering in the form of a (lieath, and 
Pening longitudinally : calyptre, the hood of moflTes : valve ov curtain. 
Fungi: ament or catkin, a feries of 
‘Wy fcales ranged along a filiform (talk. 
Coro/, the interior covering of the flower, confilling of one or more 
‘^.erived from the rind ; and frequently augmented by a ncaary 
producing honey. 
A 2 Stamen, 
