Tab. 83. 
Tab. 83. 
266 Efemialand Marine Lea IV. 
12. $. None of thefe Efential Cry/tals have any hot fiery Tafte, but 
are very mild, and fenfibly Bitter 5 efpecially, about the Root of the 
Tongue: as is alfo obfervable of fome Plants hereafter mentioned, in 
Speaking of the different Taftes of Plants. 
13. 9. Oyl of Vitriol droped upon thefe Cryftals doth not affe& 
them in the leat: yet droped into the feveral Solutions out of which 
the Cryflals are produced, immediately caufeth a great E fervefcence. 
14. §. Ofthe Solutions above named, that, of Salt of Tartar was 
the 6th. Whereof it is remarquable, That having waited feveral 
Months together, I could not obferve the leaft Effential Salt to be 
therein produced in all that time. Whether there be any other Vege- 
table Salts, befides this of Tartar, which will not yield the Efential 
above defcribed, I have not yet experimented. 
15. $. Inthe mean time, from the Premifés it is very probable, 
that moft of them afford more or fewer of the faid Cryftals. In regard 
they are Plants of a very different kind, which I made tryal upon: 
as Garden Senroygrafs, very Hot 5 Rofemary, very Aromatick. Worm- 
wood very Bitter 5 Black Thorne, Afiringent and Sower, And it is alfo 
plain, That the faid Effential Salts contained in the Lixivial, are not 
altogether one and the fame, but of divers Sorts. 
16. $. ABOUT 7 or 8days after the Effential Crystals were produ- 
ced 5 the Marine Salt did alfo begin to fhoot; firft in Rofemary; quickly 
after, in Seureygrafts Next, in Black Thor» and Wormwood, fe afie. 
the fpace of a week or 10 days more. And inall of them with fome 
difference of Size and Figure. 
17. $. The plaineft of all, was that produced out of the Sult of 
Black Thorn, confifting for the moft part of very fmall Cryftals, not 
above the 15 of an Inch fquare, as alfo thin, fhaped like a Duch Tile 
ufed for Chinmies. Many others were very thick, and near toa 
Cube. Mott of which were a little hollowed in the midle, like a grind- 
ing Marble or Salt-Celler 5 and the hollow bounded by 4 plain and 
equal Sides, all defending a little towards the Centre 3 and meafured 
by two croß Lines, which ftaid upon the four Angles of the Square y 
and fo cut one the other at Right Angles. Both which Properties 
are likewif ufually (een in the Cry/fals of Common Salt, 
18. §. In Wormwood, many of thefe Cryftals, befides the plain 
ones, were figur'd croßways like a Dagger-Hilt, Which was fome- 
times naked, and fometimes inclofed in a fquare andalmolt Cubical Box. 
Many others were figur'd into Sprigs made up of four chief Branches 
ftanding croßwile, and thofe fibbranched; and all the Branches made 
up of little (quare Crystals, cluftered together in that Figure. The 
Sprigy Figure of thefe Cryftals is not accidental, but hath conftantly 
come after they hadbeen three times diffolved, and the Solution expo- 
fed to evaporate, 
19. $. The Marine Salt of Rofemary hath alfo fome variety. For 
befides the plain ones above deferibed, there are fome thick Squares, 
which have alfo a fquare hollow defcending by five, fix, or feven nare 
row fteps, towards the Centres being in Figure, faving thefe Steps, 
fomewhat like the Hoper in a Mill. 
20. $. Upona fecond Solution of the fame Salt, there fhoots an- 
other fort of fquarez which is not plain on the edges, as the abo 
named, but fealloped or florid all round about, not unlike the Leaves 
of fome Plants. aI. $ 
