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As such it imparts its oxygen to the vegetable fibre, and thus accelerates 
the first actions of life; returning back to its pristine state of simple muriatic 
acid . 
EXPERIMENT X. 
These interesting experiments have been repeated with great industry by 
several distinguished philosophers. 
Professor Pohl at Dresden caused to germinate in water mixed with the 
oxygenated muriatic acid , the seeds of a new kind of Euphorbia, taken from 
Bocconi s collection of dried plants, 120 years old, which were supposed 
through time to have lost their vegetative power. 
EXPERIMENT XI... XXX. 
Jacquin and Yander Schott at Vienna, threw into the diluted oxygen¬ 
ated muriatic acid all the old seeds, which had been kept at the Botanic 
Garden, after they had been in vain before attempted to be made to germi¬ 
nate, and the greater part of them succeeded. 
Among these were the seeds of the nickar tree ( Guclandina honduc), 
the Pigeon Pea (Cytydud Cajan ), the narrow-leaved Do don a: a (Do- 
don^a angudtifolia), the climbing sensitive plant (Mimosa dcandend ), 
and several new species of the homaea. 
EXPERIMENT XXXI. 
There are now to be seen at Vienna very many valuable plants, which 
are entirely arising from the oxygenated muriatic acid. 
Von Uslar, in his Chemico-Physiological observations on plants, relates 
that he took different seeds of different plants, and caused an accumulation 
of oxygen in some, while no such accumulation took place in the rest, and 
found that, under certain circumstances, the first germinated sooner, and 
grew quicker than the latter. 
In order to dispose plants for imbibing more oxygen, it is necessary to 
apply to them bodies, which contain oxygen but weakly combined, or from 
which it is easily separable, and whose basis has less attraction to oxygen than 
the vegetable matter has; and such a body is the oxygenated muriatic acid. 
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