In, NoTE XXXIX. VEGETABLE GLANDULATION. 463 M| in the animal body 1s in part abſorbed again into the ſyſ- tem, even thoſe which are eſteemed excrementitious, as em the urine and perſpirable matter, of which the latter is Dre:| ſecreted, like the honey, into the external air. That the 'ecel.| honey is a nutritious fluid, perhaps the moſt ſo of any lood,| vegetable produttion, appears from its great ſimilarity to era,| ſugar, and from its afording jalteiäfichits ſuch numbers » be| of inſe&s, which live upon it ſolely during ſummer, and "om| lay it up for their winter proviſion. Theſe proofs of its we| nutritive nature evince the neceflity of its reabſorption NER into the vegetable ſyſtem for ſome uſeful purpoſe. uſe of| This purpoſe however has as yet eſcaped the reſearches 6,| aF Hbf botaniſts. M. Pontedera believes it de- in the ſigned to lubricate the vegetable urterus, and COmpares Daratus| the horn-like ne&aries of ſome flowers to the appen« well as dicle of the cecum inteſtinum of animals.(Antholog. | thof P- 49.) Others have ſuppoſed that the honey, when re honey j abſorbed, might ſerve the purpoſe of the liquor amnii, mid or white of the egg, as a nutriment for the young em- wis bryon or fecundated ſeed in ics early[ate of exiſtence. 4b| But as the nectary 1s found e IEE general 1n male fowers

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