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Show [ 218 ] CANTO IV. Cacalia prodnces much honey, that a part may be taken by in!eCl:s without injury Analyfis of common air. Source of azote. Of oxygene. Water decompofed by vegetable pores and the fun' s. ligh~. Blood crives out phloglil:on and rece1ves VItal air.0 Acquires heat and the vivifying principle. 34 Cupid aurl Pfyche . . . 4S Simoom, a pe!blentml wmrl. Defcnbed. Owing to volcanic elechicity. Not a whirlwind 65 Contagion either animal or vegetable 8z Thyrfis efcapes the Plague 91 Barometer and air-pumps. Dew on ex-haufl: incr the receiver though the hygrometer p0 oints to drynefs. Rare airwilldiffol ve or acquire more heat, and more moif-ture, and more eleCtricity I 18 Sound propagated bell: by denfe bodies, as wood, and water, and earth. Fifh in fpiral (hells all ear 164 Difcoveries of Dr. Prie!l:ley. Green vegetable matter. Pure air contained in the calces of metal s, as minium, manga-nefe, ca\amy, ochre t66 Fable of Proferpine an antient chemical emblem. q8 Diving balloons fnpplied with pure air from minium. AccountofonebyMr. Boyle 195 Me. Day. Mr. Sp:tlding zq Captain Pierce and his daughters 119 Pefl:ilentia\ winds of volcanic origin. Jordan flows through a country of volcanos 194 Change of wind owing to fmall caufes. If the wind could be governed, the produEts of the earth would be donblerl, and its number of inhabitants increaferl 30& Mr. Kirwan's treatife on temperature of climates 34:1 Seeds of plants. Spawn of fifh. Nutriment lodged in feerls. Their preferva-tion in their feed-veffels 355 Fixed fiars approach each other 369 Fable of the Phoenix 377 Plants vifible within bulbs, and buds, and feeds 383 Great Egg of Night 406 Seeds (hoot into the grouncl. Pith. Seedlobes. Starch conv_;rted into fugar. Like animal chyle 411 Light occafions the aEl:ions of vegetable mnfcles. Keeps them awake 41z Vegetable love in Parnaffia, Nigella. Vegetable adultery in Collinfonia 460 Strong vegetable fl10ots and roots bound with wire, in part dcbarkerl, whence leafbuds converted into flower-buds. Theory of this curious faEl: 467 Branches bent to the horizon bear more frnit 470 Engrafting of a fpotted paffion-flower produced fpots upon the fl:ock. Ap,Ple foft on one fide and hard on the other 501 .Cyprepedi~1m a !fumes the form of a large fp1der to affnght the humming-bird. Flyophris . Willow-wren fucks the honey of the crown-imperial 523 Difeafesof plants fom kinds. Honey-dew 529 Ergot a difeafe of rye 531 Glafs unannea\ed. Its cracks owincr to elafl:icity. One kind of lead-ore cracks ii1to pieces. Prince Rupert's drops. Elafl:ic balls 537 ?l.eep of plants. Their irritability, [en-fibiltty, and voluntary motiom 556 ERRATA. Page. 57 58 Line. 10 from bot. s ult. for VI. t'tad 4• for 575 read 565. for 585 read 575, andj'01·6II rtad6or. Attbe end of zbejirjlnote add See additional notes, No. XXIV. Attbe end of thenoteaddand additional notes, No. XXXlV. In the .fi~flnote read X X XV. inflead of XXXV I. and between the firjl and focond IWeJ in.fert tbe two following: .lind rejluent b/,od. \. 410. See additional notes, No. XXXVI. Thelea<~Jes nfpirinrt play. \. 421. See additional notes, No. XXXVII. .At the bouom add tbefo!lowing nQ/e: Ibeir dulcet balm di.Jlil. 1. 521. See additional notes, No. XXXIX. Direaion.r to the Binder for placing the Plates in Part I. Pleafe to place the print of Flora attired b h El Fertilization of .!Egypt 1 Y t e ements oppofite to the Title-page. Tornado, p. r68. v' , P· 27 • .....- · Cyprepediurn fronting page 104, / Erythrina fronting page 207• The Portland Vafe, page H of the Additional Notes. I. The firft compartment of it, P· 54· / II. The fecond compartment of it, P· 55· ......- . TIL The handles and bottom of the Vafe, 8 Secbon of the earth fronting page 66. P· 5 • R |