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another according to a\cértain order or method, which I always obferv'd 
to be this. : pe 
12 That fide of a collateral or fubcollateral,&c. branch, lay over the 
fide of the approximate (as the feathers in the wing of a Bird) whofe 
branchings proceeded. parallel to the laft biggeft {tem from which it 
{prung,and not tothe biggeft ftem of all, unlefs that were a fecond ftem 
backwards. 3 | oi 
13 This rule that held in the branchings of the Sexangular Fagure held 
alfo in the branchings of any other great or finall ftem, though it did 
not proceed from a center. : erate 
14 The exactnefS and. curiofity of the figuration of thefe branches, 
was in every particular fo tranfcendent, that I judge it almoft impoffible 
for humane art to imitate. , 
15. Tafting feveral cleer pieces of this Ice, I could not find any Uriz- 
ous tafte inthem, but thofe few I tafted, feem‘d as smfipid as water. 
16. A figuration fomewhat like this, though indeed in fome particu- 
lars much more curious, I have feveral times obferv’d in regulws martis 
frellatus, but with this difference, that all the ftems and branchings are 
bended in a moft excellent and regular order, whereas in Ice the ftems 
and branchings are ftreight, but in all other particulars it agrees with — 
this, and feems indeed nothing but one of thele ftars,or branched Figures 
frozen on Urine, diftorted, or wreathed a little, with a certain propor 
tion: Leadalfo that has Arfenick, and fome other things mixt with it, I 
have found to have its furface, when fuffer'd to cool, figured. fomewhat 
like the branchings of Urive, but much fmaller.._. ze: , 
17 But there is a Vegetable which does exceedingly. imitate thefe 
‘branches, and that is; Fearz, where the main ftem may be obfervdto 
fhoot out branches, and the ftems of each of thefe /ateral branches, to 
fend forth coVateral, and thofe fabcol/ateral, and thofe laterofubcollate- 
ral,&c, and all thofe much after the fame order with the branchings, di- 
vifions, and fubdivifions in the branchings of thefe Figures in frozen 
Urine; fo that if the Figures of both be well confider’d, one would ghefs 
that there were not much greater need of a feminal principleforthe pro- 
duction of Fear, then for the production of the branches of Urine, of 
the Stel/a martis, there feeming to be.as much form and beauty in the 
one as in the other. Paiieie mp 
And indeed, this Plant of Fearz, if all particulars be well, confider'd, 
will feem of as fimple, and uncompounded a form as any Vegetable, next 
to Adould or Mufhromes, and would next after the invention of the forms 
of thofe, deferve to be enquir'd into ; for notwithftanding feveral have 
affirm'd it to have feed, and to be propagated thereby ; yet, though! 
have made very diligent enquiry after oa particular, I cannot find that 
there is any part of it that can be imagin’d to be more feminal, then at 
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or the freezing Figuresin Urize, I found it requifite, << _. 
Firft, that the Superficies be not difturbed gt Wiad, or other 
commotion of the air, or the lika Sed os ae 
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