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vegetables, which correfpond to thofe in the animal economy, are firft a threefold fyflem of abforbent veffels, one branch of which is de- figned to imbibe the nutritious moifture of the earth, as the laéteals imbibe the chyle from the ftomach and inteflines of animals; another to imbibe the water of the atmofphere, opening its mouths on the cuticle of the leaves and branches, like the cutaneous lymphatic vef- fels of animals; and a third to imbibe the fecreted fluids from the in- ternal cavities of the vesetable fyftem, like the cellular lymphatics of animals.|

Secondly, in the vegetable fetus, as in feeds or buds, another fyf- tem of abforbent veflels is to be expeéted, which may be termed um- bilical vefels, as defcribed in Set. III. of this work, which fupply nutriment to the new bud or feed, fimilar to that of the albumen of the egg, or the liquor amnii of the uterus: and alfo another fyftem of arterial veflels, which may be termed placental ones, correfpond- ing with thofe of the animal fetus in the egc or in the womb, which fupply the blood of the embryon with due oxygenation before its na- tivity.

Thirdly, a pulmonary fyftem correfpondent to the lungs of aerial animals, or to the gills of aquatic ones, by which the fluid abforbed by the laéteals and lymphatics may be expoled to the influence of the air. This is done by the leaves of plants, or the petals of flowers: thofe in the air refembling lunes, and thofe in the water refembling gills.

Fourthly, an arterial fyftem to convey the fluid thus elaborated to the various glands ofthe vegetable for the purpofes of its growth, nu- trition, and fecretions: and a fyftem of veins to bring back a part of the blood not thus expended,

Fifthly, the various olands which feparate from the vegetable blood the honey, wax, Sum, refin, flarch, fugar, effential oil, and other fe- Cretionss

Sixthly, the organs adapted to the lateral or viviparous generation

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