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liquor,both from that I had cut, and that 1 had cut it from, 
without preflure. : 
Which made me think, than the motion of this Plast upon. 
touching, might be from this, that there being a conftant inter 
courfé betwixt every part of this Plant and its root,either by.a cir- 
culation of this liquor,or a conftant prefling of the fubtiler parts, 
of itto every extremity of the Plant. Upon-every preflure,from, 
whatfoever it proceeds, greater then that which keeps it up, the 
fubtile parts of this liquor are thruft downwards, towards its ar= 
ticulations.of the leaves, where,not having room prefently to get 
into the, fprig,the little round pedunculus, from whence the Spine 
and thofe oblique Fibres 1 mention’d rife, being dilated, the 
Spine and Fibres (being continued from it) .muft be contraCted 
and fhortned, and fodraw the leaf upwards to joyn with its fel- 
low in thefame condition with it felf, where, being .clofed, they 
are held together by the implications of the little whitith hair, as 
well as by the ftill retreating liquor, which diftending the F ibres 
that are continued, lower to the branch and root, fhorten them 
above ; and when the liquor is fo much forced from the Sprout, 
whofe F ibres are yet tender, and’ not ableto fupport themfelves, 
but by that tenfnefs which the liquor filling their sities nates 
them, the Sprout hangs and flags. 
But, perhaps, he that had the ability and Aig to give you 
the exact Anatomy of this pretty Plant, to thew you its Fibres, 
and_vifible Canales, through which this fine liquor circulateth; — 
or is moyed, and had the faculty of better and more. copioufly 
expreffing his Obfervations and conceptions, fuch a one would 
eafily from the motion of this liquor, folve. all the Phenomena, 
and would not fear to affirm, that it is no ob{cure fenfation this 
Plant hath. But I have {aid too much, I humbly ae, and am 
ready to ftand corretted, : = Pes 
T have not yet made fo full and fatisfactory, Obfervations as Ideft ire on 
this _ which feems to be a Subje&t that will afford abundance of 
information: 
