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to that or t’other place; Or, as that'the’ Bit fed Wateli! seakrog site 
tion in the defcription of Mok, fhould, when’ thofe parts! whiely indred 
 itsmotion were fallen away, begin to move, but aft ef quioatog lied — 
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Obferv. XX1. Of Mols, and feveral other fall vegetative Sub. 
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A A OS is a Plant, that the wifeft' of Kings thought neither unworthy 
his fpeculation, nor his Pen, and though’ amongft Plants it bein 
bulk one of the finalleft, yet itis not the leaft confiderable:’ For, 4s'to its 
fhape, it may compare for the beauty of it with’ any’ Plant that gtows: 
and bears a much bigget breadth; it hasa root'almoft like afeedy' Part 
nep, furnifh’d with {mall ftrings and fuckers, which are all of them finel} 
branch’d, like thofe of the roots of miuch bigger Vegetables $' out of this 
{prings the {tem or body Of the Plant, which 1s 6itiewhat Quadringular, 
rather then Cylindrical, moft curioutly flzted or ftrung with {mall creates, 
which run,for the moft part, paral/el the whole ftem’ ‘on the fides of thig 
are clofe and thick fet, a multitude of fair,large,well-fhap’'d’ leaves} fome 
of them of a rounder, others of a longer fhape, according’ as they are 
yen er or older when pluck’d 5 as I ghefs by this, that thoie Plants that 
ad the {talks growing from the top of them, had their leave of 4 iritch 
longer fhape, all the furface.of each fide of which, is curioully coyer'd 
with a multitude of littlé oblong tranfparent’ bodies,’ in the’ manner as 
you fee it exprefs'd in the leaf B, in the XIII. Scheme. sia esi 
_ This Plant, when young’and fpringing up, does thuch refemble a Houf 
leek, having thick leaves,almoft like that, and feems to be fomwhat of kin 
to it in other particulars ; alfo from the top of the leaves, there fhoots ‘out 
a {mall white and tran{parent hair, or thorn: This ‘{tem, , in time,come to ae 
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fhoot out into a long, roundand even ftalk, whith by cueting tranfvett 
when dry, I manifeftly found to be a ftiff} hard, and hollow Cane, o 
Reed, without any kind of khot, or ftop, from its bottom, where the 
to fhatter out its feed: at a place underneath this' cap, B, which before 
