q | " 1 NoTEz XXXVIIL VEGETABLE IMPREGNATION. 457 New culate in various parts of their circulation is rendered pro- R bable by the increaſed growth of one bud, when others pal| In its VICINITY are Cut away; as it thus ſeems to receive the longer nourilhment which was before divided amongſt many., 17 00€/

N:O FE XXXVI: VEGETABLE IMPREGNATION.

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| CaNTO-NWT 1872: ud af tamen FRoM the accurate experiments and obſervations of rus for Spallanzani it appears that in the Spartium Junceum, h n0U- ruſh-broom, the very minute ſeeds were diſcerned in the veſſels pod at leaſt twenty days before the fower is in full bloom, of the that is twenty days before fecundation, At this time alfo 2 pur the powder of the anthers was viſible, but glued faſt to 8 ſat+ their ſummits. The ſceds however at this time, and for hen ten days after the bloſſom had fallen oßi, appeared to con- ofthe ſiſt of a gelatinous ſubſtance. On the eleventh day afier iheach the falling of the bloſſom the ſeeds became heart-ſhaped, jenen with the baſis attached by an appendage to the pod, and '"CG a white point at the apex; this white point was on preſi Hen ure found to be a cavity including a drop of liquor, ER| On the 25th day the cavity which at firſt appeared at 3| the apex was much enlarged and ſtill foll of liquor, it alſo di contained a very[mall ſemi-tranſparent body, ofa yellowiſh

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