PHYTOLOGI A.

PART THE FIRST.

PHYSIOLOGY OF VEGETATION.

SON es RE

THE INDIVIDUALITY OF THE BUDS OF VEGETABLES.

1. Vegetables are inferior animals. À bud torn from a tres ill grow; Vines and bawtborns fo planted. Many kinds of fruit ingrafted on one tree. 2. The bark and branches of bollow trees remain alive. Caudex of herbaceous plants. Caudex of buds. 3. Which defcending, form à new bark over the old one. bark veffels occafonally ingjculate. Upper Ep of wounds of the bark grows downwardrs. à. Flower-buds are individual beings; do not Jo certainly grow by inoculation as leaf-buds; are biennial plants like leaf-buds, but die in autumn without enlarging the fize of the tree by their progeny. 5. Ix wbat vegetables differ from animals; they bave not mufcles of locomotion; nor organs of digefion. 6. In wbat they re-

Jemble animals. They have abforbent, umbilical, placental, and pulmonary veffels, arteries, glands, organs of reproduétion, with mujcles, nerves, and brain. 7. Pro- grefs of a young bud, and of a feed. The plumula, radicle, and caudex of a bud. 8. Buds and fecds are biennial beings. How they differ. The difunion of the pith diflinguifhes buds from each other, and thus evinces their individualty.

1. W/s have fo accuftomed ourfelves to confider life and irritability to be aflociated with palpable warmth and vifible motion, that we find a renitency in ourfelves to afcribe them to the comparatively cold and motionlefs fibres of plants. But to reafon rightly on many vegetable phenomena we fhall find it neceflary firft to fhew, that vesetables are in reality an inferior order of animals, If a bud be torn from the branch of a tree, or cut out and planted B in