The Diverfities i LA VI 
fallying the Salts ofthe one, and difarming the su/phurs of the other, 
But fome, wherein the Suphureows parts are more copious, will hard! 
ever become Sewer. Hence alfo, fome Plants, whofe Roots are neither 
Hot, nor of any ftrong Tufte, as thofe of Wild Anemone ; yet their 
Leaves and Flowers are plainly Canffick : So that it feems, that as their 
Juyces rile up into the Trunk or Sfalk,and are therein further fermented, 
the Sulpkurens Parts thereof, are at the fame time relaxed from the 
other Principles, and acuated with an Aereal Salt. 
10. $. A Stupifucient Taft (as the Impreffion which fome Hot Plants 
make upon the Tongue may be called ) is in fome fort, analogous to the 
mortifying of any part of the Body by the application of a Canftick. 
For as there the mortification fucceeds the burning pain, fo here, the 
Stupifacfion, neither comes before, nor with the Heat, but follows it. 
11. $. Sweetnefi is produced, fometimes by an Alkaly 3 fmoothed 
either by a Sulphur, asin Lime-Water; or by both a Spirit and a Sul- 
phur, asin the Stillatitions Oyls of Animals. But molt commonly, by 
a fmoothed Acids asin Mal, sugar, Hony. Hence a Sweet Tafle, is 
generally founded in a Sowers So Sower Apples, by mellowing, and 
harfh Pears, by baking become fweet ; the spirit and sulphur being 
hereby at once feparated from the other Principles and brought to a 
nearer union with the Acid. So the Sower Leaves of Wood-Sorrel, be- 
ing dry’d, become fweet: and thofe of a fower Codlin, while they 
hang on the Tree, and even of a Crab-Tree, are neither Asfringent, nor 
fower, but fenfibly fweet, Andfo commonly, wherever the faid Prin- 
ciples are a little exalted by a foft Fermentation 3 as in the Juyce of the 
Stalkof Maze or Indian Wheat, which isa {weet as Sagar 5 and in the 
green Stalks of all forts of Gorn and Grafs, in feveral degrees. So like- 
wife Tulips and fome other Roots, being taken up, in open weather, 
fometime before they /prout 3 iftafted, are as {weet as Liquirifh or Sue 
gars and at no other time : not only Fruits, but many Roots, Seeds, 
and other Parts, upon their firft or early Gerzzination, acquiring a cu- 
rious Mellownefs, wherein, all their Principles are refolved, and their 
molt Spirituows Parts exalted and fpread over the Acid. Wherefore 
alfo moft Roots, which are not mecrly long, but grow deep in the 
round, have at leaft fome of their Juzces of a (weet Tafts as Liguirifh, 
Exyngo, Hounds-Tongue, Garden-Parfnep, Black Henbeane, Deadly Night- 
Jhade, &e. Even the Fuyce of Horfe Radifh, which bleeds at the Lym- 
pheduits, is of a {weet Tafte. And of the fame kindred thofe which 
grow the deepeft, are the fweeteft; as a Parjzep is {weerer than a Car- 
root, efpecially if you taft the bleeding Sap; and the Root of Common 
Tall Trefoyl tafteth fomewhat like Ligmrifb, but is not near fo feet. 
Forall deep Roots, are fed with a lef Nitrous Aliment : and being re- 
moter from the Aer, their Fryces país under much more foft and mode- 
rate Fermentations. 
12. $. Bitternefs is produced by a Sulphur well impregnated,either 
with an Alkaline, or an Acid Salt, but alfo fhackled with Earth. And 
therefore the Bitteref? Plants, 
that the Z 0 
ie , which bears a {weet 
Fruit, bleeds a Bitter Milk, So likewife thofe Plants, which 2 a 
jitter 
