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as vegetable buds may be ſuppoſed to produce their um- bilical veſlels or roots down the bark of the tree. This In reſpet to the production of the fruit ſurrounding the ſeeds of trees has been aſſimilated to the gall-nuts on oak-leaves, and to the bedeguar on briars, but there is a powerful objedtion to this do&trine, viz. that the fruit of figs, all which are female in this country, grow nearly as large without fecundation, and therefore the embryon has in them no ſelt-Iiving principle.

NOTE XXIX. VEGETABLE..GLANDULATION.

Seeks, Where fine pores their dulcet balm diſtHl. CANTOo1V. 1. 533.

Tae glands of vegetables which ſeparate from their blood the mucilage, farch, or ſugar for the placentation or ſupport of their ſeeds, bulbs, and buds; or thoſe which 3 depoſit their bitter, acrid, or narcotic juices for their de- fence from depredations of inſeCts or larger animals; or thoſe which ſecrete reſins or wax for their protection from moiſture or frofts, conſiſt of veſlels too fine for the INJEC- tion or abſorption of coloured fluids, and have not there- fore yet been exhibited to the Inſpection even of our glaſſes, and can therefore only be known by their effeets, but one of the moſt curious and important of all vegetable ſecretions, that of honey, 1s apparent to our naked eyes,

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