N BookIV. of Seeds. = 199 : 
N : 9 ` 
x 2. $. Soin Typha’ major, the Seeds being blow’n off and lown 
N 2 (asthe Eggs of many Fifbes fpawn'd ) with great hazard, they are 
mit ftrangely numerous. For as they ftand altogether upon the Spike, they 
a D make a Cylinder at Jeaft fix Inches long, and near {ths of an Inch in Di- 
Tey ametre, or anInchand } about. Now 9 of thefe seeds, fet fide to 
Tu fide, as they ftand on the Spike, make but ¿tb ofan Inch; fò that 74 
Bag) make a line of an Inch in Length. But becaufe upon the spike, the 
SDN Hairs belonging to the Seeds come between them; we will abate 10, 
de and count but 62. To which ¿ths of 62, that is (without the Fraéti- 
Pa on ) 46. being added, makes 108 for the Circuit of the Cylinder. 
do And the Cylinder being fix Inches long, there are fix times 62, that is, 
k 372, for a Line the length of the Cylimder. Which number being 
eh multiplied by 108, produceth 40176 the number of Seeds which ftand 
ee upon one Stalk; and fo, upon three Stalks, which one Plant common- 
oom Ja ly bears, there are in one year, above a hundred and twenty Thou- 
“le Land seeds, 
3. §. SO SOON asthe seed is ripe, Nature taketh feveral Me- 
mee, Ti thods for its being duly fow'n : not only in the opening of the Uterus, 
aa asin fome Inftances (4) hath already been feen3 but alfo in the make (2) P. 3. 
ong ofthe Seed it felf. For Firft, the Seeds of many Plants, which affect Ch. 5. Tab, 
b wich a peculiar Soil or Seat, as of Arum, Poppy, Exc. are heavy and {mall 70, & 7 £. 
enough, without further care, to fall directly down into the Ground: 
ia and fo to grow in the fame place where themfelves had their Birth. , 
And it 4. §. But if they are fo large and light, as to be expofed to the 
je to thii wind, they are often furnilhed with one or more Hooks; To ftay them 
r of the} from ftraying over far from their proper place, till by the fall of Leavs 
or otherwife, they are fafcly lodged. So the Seeds of Avens have one 
fingle Hook , thole of Agrimony and Goofe-grafs, many 3 both the for- 
mer, loving a Bank for warmth, the latter, a Hedge for its fupport. 
5. $. On the contrary, many Seeds are furnilhed with Wings or 
Feathers, Partly, with the help of the Wind to carry them, when 
they are ripe, from off the Plant, as thofe of Ab, Maple, Orach, &c. 
leaft ftaying thereon too long, they fhould either be corrupted, or 
mif their feafon. And partly, to enable them to make their fight, 
more or lefs, abroad: that fo they may not, by falling together, come 
up too thick ; and that if one fhould mif a good Soy! or Bed, another 
may hit. So the Kernels of Pine have wings not unlike to thof of 
fome Infeits 5 yet very fhort, in refpe& of the weight of the Seed; Tab. 7% 
whereby they flye not in the Aer, but like domeftick Fowls, only 
flutter upon the Ground, But thofe of Typha, Dandelion and molt 
of the Pappous kind, with many more, have very long and numerous 
Feathers, by which they are wafted every way, and to any diftance 
neceffary for the aforefaid purpofes. 
6. $. Again, there are fome Seeds, which are fcattered not by 
flying abroad, but by beingeither Spurted, or Slung away. The firk 
are thofe of Woodforrel; which having a running Root, Nature fecs it fit 
to fow the Seeds at fome diftance. The doing of which is effected by 
a white thick and fturdy Cover of a Tendinous or Springy Nature, in Tab. Ya 
which the Seed lies within the Café. This Cover, fo foon as it begins” * 
to drye, burfts open on one fide, in an inftant, and is violently turned 
infide outward, as you would turn the Gizard of a Fowl; and fo 
Ímartly throws off the seed. 
Tab. 72: 
7. 9 
