464 VEGETABLE GLANDULATION. NoTE XXXIX.

in all the moths and butterflies, the male and female pa- rents die as ſoon as the eggs are impregnated and ex- cluded; the eggs remaining to be perfected and hatched at ſome future time. The ſame thing happens in regard to the male and female parts of flowers; the anthers and filaments, which conſtitute the male parts of the Aower, and the ſtigma and ſtyle, which conſfütute the ſenſitive or amatorial organ of the female part of the flower, fall of and die as ſoon as the ſeeds are impregnated, and along with theſe the petals and neCctary. Now the moths and butterflies above mentioned, as ſoon as they acquire the paſſion and the apparatus for the reproduction of their ſpecies, loſe the power of ſeeding upon leaves as they did before, and become nouriſhed by what?--by honey alone.

Hence we acquire 2 ſtrong analogy for the uſe of the neCtary or ſecretion of honey in the vegetable economy, which is, that the male parts, of flowers, and the female parts, as ſoon as they leave their fetus-ſate, expanding

their petals,(which conſtitute their lungs,) become ſenſi-

ble to the paſſion, and gain the apparatus for the repro dudion of their ſpecies, and are fed and nouriſhed with honey like the inſe&s above deſcribed; and that hence the nedary begins its office of producing honey, and dies or ceaſes to produce honey at the ſame time with the birth and death of the ſtamens and the piſtils; which, whether exiſting in the ſame or in difierent flowers, are ſeparate and diſtinct animated beings.

Previous to this time the anthers with their filaments, and the ſtigmas with their ſtyles, are in their fetus-ſtate