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11. $. Firft then the various Figures of their feveral Parts hould 
be obferved and that with refpect both to the Forms, and the Pof- 
tions, by which their Roots, Trunks, Branches, Leaves, Flowers,Fruits, 
and Seeds may vary, or agree ; and thofe feveral Lines, by which 
both the faid Varieties are determin.d. In which of thefe Parts, the 
agreement chiefly liess this being both more obfervable, and more 
material in fome of them ; lefs in the Root, more in the Flower, or 
Seed. And in how many of thefe Parts together; whether one, more, 
orall. By both which, the Orders and Degrees of Affinity, which 
are many, may be accounted 5 either as to what we ftrittly call Kin- 
dred, orelfe Analogy. For there are found, not only Herbs account- 
ed of feveral Tribes, which are ally'd and fome of the Smalleft,which 
are of kin to the Greateft : But there are alfo, probably, fome Herbs, 
which have a particular Relation, to many Kinds of shrubs ; and fome 
Shrubs,to many Kinds of Trees, Thusthe feveral forts of Letuce, are 
of Kin, together in the Firf Degrees with Endive, inthe Second. The 
feveral Clays, among(t themfelves in the Firfts with Horehownd, in 
the Seconds with Lamium, in the Third, All Strawberries agree toge- 
ther, in the Firf Degrees with Cinguefoyl, in the Second 5 with Tor- 
mentil in the Third; and with Avens , in other Degrees more re- 
mote. So Agrinsony, hath alike Analogy unto Strawberry; as Goats- 
Rue, hath to Claver: And Strawberry, the like unto the Rafp; as Goos- 
berry to the Vine 3 or Burnet, to the Rofe. Amongft the feveral Sorts 
of Graff, there are fome which matchall thofe of Cor» 5 which is but a 
greater kind ofGraf. So again all Pulfe, are not only of kin, in their 
feveral Degrees, to one another ; but likewife, to almoft all kinds of 
Trefayls, as Melilot, Fenugreck, and the common Clavers themfelves 5 
as by comparingnot only their Leaves , but Flowers, Seeds, and Cods 
together, may beevident. For the feveral parts of the Flower of a 
Trefoyl, are fo many more Flowers, containing fo many Cods of fmall 
Seeds, all, inthape, agreeable to the Flowers, Cods, and seeds of Pulß. 
The fame Relation, which Trefoyls have to the Peas or other Pulfe 5 
Colts-foot, hath to Buttyr-Burs Chickweed to Lencanthenum; Ground- 
fill, co Jacobea 5 or Scorodonia,to Foxglove: Or, to go higher, as the 
Leguminous Kinds of Herbs, have to Sena, or fome other of the Lobed 
Shrubs and Trees. And, as among Animals, there arefome which con- 
neĝ feveral Kinds; as the Batt doth Beats and Birds: So, among 
Plants, there are fome alfo, which{eem to ftand between two Tribes 5 
as Lappa, between Knapmeeds and Thiftles; Lampfana, between the 
Intybaccous Kind, and the Moufe-cars. 
12. $. From hencelikewile, the Natures of Plants may be conje- 
&tured. For in looking upon divers Plants, though of different 
Names and Kinds; yet iffome affinity may be found betwixt them, 
thenthe Nature ofany one of them being well known, we have thence 
ground of conjecture, asto the Nature of all the reft. So that as eve- 
ry Plant may have fomewhat of Nature individual toit felf; fozas far 
asit obtaineth any Vifible Communities with other Plants, fo far, may 
it partake of Common Nature with thofe alfo. Thus the Wild, and 
Garden Cucumers, have this difference 3 that the one purgeth {trongly, 
the other, mot at all: yetin being Dinretick, they both agree. The 
Natures of Umbelliferows Plants, we know, are various; yel ‘tis moft 
probable, that they all agree in this one, föl. in being Carminative. 
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