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Georgical essays / [by Alexander Hunter and others; edited by A.H.

  • Alexander Hunter
Date:
1777
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Credit: Georgical essays / [by Alexander Hunter and others; edited by A.H. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 56° ] ESuiSavlia ker Wie Onl egetation and the Motion of the Sap. - Nimal bodies, from the nature of their ! ftructure, are liable to difeafes. Vege- tables, being lefs complicated, have fewer ma- ladies. The laws of the animal ceconomy are difcovered by anatomical infpection.. The ve- getable ceconomy has the fame foundation. Malpighi and Grew, unknown to each other, undertook the anatomy of plants nearly about the fame time. The engravings that they have left us are lafting monuments of their induitry and attention. Many things, however, have been found out fince their days. Many things remain yet to be difcovered, . The general and obvious parts of a plant are five. The root, the ftem, the branches, the leaves, the flower. The component parts. of thefe divifions are fimple in comparifon to the animal body. The offices of a vegetable being — only increafe and frutification, there was no neceflity for a complicated ftructure. : on Fale A
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