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to that of fiih. II. Another pulmonary ſyſtem belongs to flowers; colours of flowers. 1. Vaſcular rudure ofthe corol. 2. Glands producing honey, wax, özc. periſh wich the corol. 3. Many flowers have no green leaves attend- ing them, as Colchicum. 4. Corols not for the defence of the ſtamens. 5. Corol of Helleborus Niger changes to a calyx 6. Green leaves not neceſlary to the fruit- bud; green leaves of Colchicum belong to the new bulb not to the lower. 7. Flower-bud after the corol falls is ſimply an uterus; mature flowers not injured by taking off the green leaves. 8. Inoſculation of vegetable veſlels.

NoTE XXXVill.--VEGETABLE IMPREGNATION.

SEzZDS In broom diſcovered twenty days before the flower opens; progreſs of the ſeed after impregnation z ſeeds exiſt before fecundation; analogy between ſeeds and eggs 3; progreſs of the egg within the hen; ſpawn of frogs and fiſhes; male Salamander; marine plants projet a liquor not a powder; ſeminal Auid diluted with water, if a ſtimulus only? Male and female influence neceſlary in animals, inſeCtts, and vegetables, both in produd&ion of ſeeds and buds 3; does the embryon ſeed produce the ſur- rounding fruit, like inſects in gall-nuts?

NoTE XXXIX.-VEGETABLE GRANDULATION«.

VEGETABLE glands cannot be injected with coloured Auids; eßential oil; wax 3; honey; neCtary, its. compli- Cate apparatus; expoſes the honey to the air like the 1a-

rymal gland; honey 1s nutritious; the male and female = of flowers copulate and die like moths and butter- flies, and are fed like them with honey; anthers ſuppoſed