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After the feed was fallen away, I found both the Cafe Stalkjand Plane, 
all grow red and wither, and from other ‘ee of the root continually to 
{pring new.branches:or % which by degrees increafed, and grew as 
freee as ths orm ierness FP 'd, fhatter'd, and wither'd. 
A, sould not find that it a hery'ds any particular feafons for thefe ‘everal 
growth, but rather found i it to be {pringing, mature, ripe, feedy 
and wider datall times. of the year; But I found it moft to flourifh and 
increafe in warm and moift weather. 
_Atgathers its nourifhments,for the moft part,out of fome Lapidefcent,or 
other fubftance corrupted or chang’d from its former texture, or fub- 
ftantial form; for have found it to grow on the rotten parts of Stone, 
_of Bricks, of Wood, of Bones, of Leather, ec. 
At oft grows.on the barks of feveral Trees, {preading it felf, fometimes 
from upwards, and fometimes from fome chink of cleft of 
peat of the Tree, which has fome pstrify'd fubftance in it 5 weabiy 
of a diftinét kind from that which} I obferv'd to grow on patrifyd 
inanimate onic and rotten earth. 
There are alfo pie varieties of other kinds of Mofles, which grow on 
Trees, and — other Plants, of whichI fhall here sak no mention, 
nor of the.Mofs the fkull of a dead hich, uch re- 
» eles thar of Tee eepouring 0 a dead man, which m 
Whether this Plant does fometimes originally {pring or rife out of cor: 
ruption, without any difleminated feed, Thave sr ytd trials enongh 
to be yery much, either pofitive or negative; for as it eems yery hard to 
conceive how the feed fhould be generally difpers'd into all parts where 
there is a corrup se Aa unlefs we may rationally fuppofe, that 
feed eee fo exc lLand confequently exceeding light, i 
d taken line a pea to and fro in the Air into ev 
ops of rain is wath’d down ont of it, and o difpers ss diac 
pas hr nly takes tone and ry gy es, where i Finds 2am | 
yenient foil or matrix for it to thrive in3 {0 if we will haye it to 
gy eee gotcha nol any equi mch ib of 
corruption of a iia 
Brick thou be the pear curioufly a ai 
Sagal ee ined oe bur: tha ya 
Ul Kein boi ide ysl sa when ofthe 
and 
“Flim; but Binet og rans rot th raed ey 
 fome little holeof Dirt in it was rooted, i would sad 
