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466 VEGETABLE GLANDULATION. NorTEz XXXIX. 1.5

that none of theſe changes are more incomprehenſible| phi than the transformation of tadpoles into frogs, and cater- NM Pillars into butterflies.(56 There are parts of animal bodies, which do not re- bur quire oxygenated blood for the purpoie oftheir ſecretions, in as the liver; which for the produdtion of bile takes its 15 blood from:he meſenteric veins, afrer it muſt have loft wou the whole or a great part of its oxygenation, which it kt had acquired in its paſſage through the lungs. In like wis manner the pericarpium, or womb of the flower, conti-| a nues to ſecrete its proper juices for the pre nouriſh-| pre tent of the newly animated embryon-ſeed; and the ſac- ſho charine, aceſcent, or ſtarchy matter of the fruit or ſeed- Wwe lobes for its future growth; in the ſame manner as theſe ſuo! things went on before fecundation; that 15, without a any pro circulation of juices in the petals, or produdttion of honey of in the neCtary; theſe having periſhed and fallen off with 187 the male and female LIEN for impregnation. pod It is probable that the depredations of inſe&s on this ah nhutritious uid muſt D EEE to the produd&s of vege-.n tation, and would be much more ſo, but that the plants

NS an,| have either acquired means to defend their honey in part, bil

or have learned to make more than 13 abſolutely neceſ-

Ni lary for their own economy. In the ſame manner the a ..<.. t honey-dew on trees is very injurious to them; in which 3 IE in; IGES fre diſeaſe the nutritive fluid, the vegetable-ſapjuice, ſeems to' -: eve be exſuded by a retrograde motion of the cutancous --. 00 1 Iymphatics, as in the ſweating ſickneſs of the laſt cen- .. t tury. To prevent the depredation of inſects on honey 4 .. 558... ir a wealthy man in Italy 15 ſaid to have poiſoned his neigh-| 2 read

bour's bees perhaps by mixing arſenic with honey, againſt€“ a“ u