vegetableæthiops

A kind of charcoal prepared by incinerating a sea-weed, Fucus vesiculo sus, the Common Bladder-wrack, in a covered crucible. IMG:content-0424.png:[blocks in formation] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine, gō, pot, and comprehend all plants of whatever affinity, from the highest to the lowest. In his System a Naturæ he divided it into three tribes: Monocoty ledones, Dicotyledones, and Acotyledones; but he made no subsequent use of this arrangement either in his Artificial or in his Natural System of cla ification. For Lindley's cla ification, see BOTANY. vegetable-leather, s . Bot.: Euphorbia punicea . vegetable-life, subst. The life of a plant as distinguished from that of an animal. Linnæus described a vegetable as an organized being pos se ed of life but not of feeling. Like an animal, it has the powers of nutrition or self-support, that of a imilating to itself particles of other bodies suitable for its nourishment and growth, and finally it has the power of reproduction. [PLANT, II., 1.] vegetable-marrow, 8. [MARROW (1), s., 2.] vegetable-morphology, s. [MORPHOLOGY.] vegetable-mold or soil, subst. Mold or soil to a certain extent formed by decaying or decayed vege tation. It might be supposed that this would tend to increase continually in thickne , especially in tropical forests, where vegetation is so so luxuriant; but a large proportion of it is swept away by the heavy rains, or, decomposing on the spot, is partly resolved into gaseous elements.