1494. The old liber dies with every maturation of the fruit, because there the difference attains solution. But a new life develops itself in the parenchyma of the plant, and forms new liber or, properly speaking, a new plant about the old. 1495. Persistent plants consist of numerous plants, which gradually grow round about each other. 1496. In accordance with the idea of the plant, each one perishes with the maturation of the fruit. 1497. On account of the addition of the new plant about the old, the plant has also been confined to no definite magnitude and to no definite number in its mode of ramification. 1498. Indefiniteness in form, size and number, is the character of the plant, although a law lies at the basis of all this. The animal has a definite size, because several animals do not grow around each other. III.--_PHYTOLOGY_. 1499. Hitherto the organs of the plant have been considered in a general point of view or as to their idea in time; to this now follows the development of the plant in a special sense, or its representation in space. 1500. The vegetable tissues, systems, and organs have only by degrees been disengaged from each other and independently perfected. The independent or self-substantial development of the organs constitutes definite or _individual_ plants. 1501. A plant, in which all the organs are present, separately or self-substantially developed and yet combined, is without doubt the highest in point of rank. 1502. Before it attains to this separation, nature can only produce lower forms, in which fewer organs have attained to independence. These forms constitute the diversity of plants and their plurality, for nature establishes every principal form as a finished organization. 1503. There are as many plants different from each other as there are organs, namely, tissues, anatomical systems and members. 1504. The sum of all plants is called the vegetable kingdom; _this is the self-substantial representation of all vegetable organs_. (Ed. 1st, 1810, p. 123.) 1505. The vegetable kingdom is consequently the expression of the vegetable idea, or of the perfect plant represented _in the multiplicity of individuals_; it is the plant disintegrated, or anatomised, by nature herself.