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We should not regard vegetation of this kind as being produced from spores, any more than are the multitudes of rudimentary animal formations such 1 'Experiments on stimulated muscle and nerve fibres' (Berlin 1797), vol. I, sect. vi, pp. 171-180. 39 HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OP NATURE as infusoria, intestinal worms, and swine-gargets etc. This universal animation is not only found in the sea and on land therefore, but also occurs on independent living subjectivity. The determinations of vegetable and animal being, such as cellular tissues, seeds, eggs, growth and so on, are attributed to these formations by means of induction.
Without light plants certainly become larger, but they remain tasteless, colourless, and odourless. That is why they tum towards the light. Potato plants which sprout in the darker parts of a cellar will creep several yards across the floor towards 48 5 + 10 15 + + 25 30 35 + 40 THE VEGETABLE ORGANISM a chink oflight on the other side of it, and in order to reach the opening where they can enjoy the light, they will climb up the wall as if they knew + the way. Sunflowers and a host of other flowers face the sun, and turn as it moves across the sky.
If these points touch the earth, they also strike root, and bring forth other plants. Willdenow (loc. , p. 397) mentions that, 'The Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) bends its branches down to the earth perpendicularly, and turns them into trunks. ' (c) The branches grow from buds (gemmulae). Willdenow (loc. , p. ' Willden ow then continues, 'If a grafted tree is opened up at the side of the graft, it will also be quite apparent, that fibres from a graft run for a short distance into the main stem. ' On pages 486-487 he has more to say about this bud grafting.