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moveable Apices fixt on the (lender points 

 of the Stamina, whereby it might eafily with 

 the leaft breath of wind be difperfed in the 

 air, thereby furrounding the plant, as it were, 

 with an Atmofphcre of fublimed fulphur- 



couspounce?for many trees andplantsabound 

 with it, which uniting with the air particles, 

 they may perhaps be infpired at feveral parts 

 of the plant, and cfpecially at the c Piftillum y 

 and be thence conveyed to the Capjula 

 feminaliSy cfpecially tov^ards evening, and in 

 the night when the beautiful Aetata of the 

 flowers are clofed up, and they, with all 

 the other parts of the vegetable, are in a 

 ftrongly imbibing ftate. And if to thefe 

 united fulphureous and aercal particles we 

 iuppofe tome particles of light to be joyned, 

 for Sir Ifaac Newton has found that fulphur 

 attracts light ftrongly, then the remit of 

 thefe three by far the molt active principles 

 in nature will be a Tmtffom S aliens to 

 invigorate the feminal plant : And thus we 

 are at laft conduced by the regular Analyfis 

 of vegetable nature to the fir ft enlivening 

 principle of their minuted origin. 





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