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may be causd by a vegetative’ principle, which was 2 coadjutor to the 
life and growth of the greater Vegetable, and was by the deftroying 
of the life of it ftopt and impeded in performing its office's but’ after- 
wards, upon a further corruption of feveral parts that had all the while 
impeded it, the heat of the Sun winding up, as it were, the {pring, fets it 
again into a vegetative motion, and this being fingle, and not at all regu- 
lated as it was before(when a partof that greater machine the priftine ve- 
getable)is mov'd after quite a differing manner,and produces effects very 
differing from thofe it did before. | i 
But this I propound onely as a conjecture, not that I am more enclin‘’d 
to this Hypothefs then the feminal, which upon good reafon 1 ghefs to be 
Mechanical alfo, as I may elfewhere more fully fhew : But becaufe I may, 
by this,hint a poflible way how this appearance inay be folv d 5 fuppofing 
we fhould be driven to confefs from certain Experiments and Obfervati- 
ons madé, that fich or fuch Vegetables were produc'd ‘out of the cor- 
ruption of another, without any concurrent feminal principle (as I have 
given fome reafon to fuppofe, in the defcription of a AGcrofcopical Mulh- 
rome) without dérogating at all from the infinite wifdom of the Creator. 
For this accidental production, as Imay call it, does manifeft as much, if 
not very much more, of the excellency of his contrivance.as any thing in 
the rei a vegetative bodies of the world, even as the accidental 
moticn of the Automaton does make the owner {ee, that there was much 
more contrivance in it then at firft he imagin‘d. But of this I have added 
more in the defcription of Mould,and the Vegetables on Rofe leaves,éc. 
thofe being much more likely to have their original from fuch a caufe 
then this which I have here defetibed, inthe 13. Scheme, which indeedI © 
‘cannot conceive otherwife of, then as of a moft perfec Vegetable, want- 
ing nothing of the perfections of the moft confpicuous and vafteft Vege- 
tables of the world, and to be of a rank fo high, as that it may very 
ay be reckon'd with the tall Cedar of Lebanon, as'that Kingly 
otanift has done. Tero Bie hone sus bobeqen. 9) i408 
We know there may be as much curiofity of contrivance, and excel- 
lency of form in a very fmall Packeticlock, that takes not up anInch 
{quare of room,as there may be ina Church-clock that fillsa whole room3 
And I know not whether all the contrivances and Afechanifms requifite 
to a perfect Vegetable, may not be crowded into an exceedingly lefs- 
_ room then this of Mois, as I have heard of a ftriking Watch fo {mall, 
that it ferv'd for a Pendant in a Ladies ear; and I have ‘already given 
you the defcription of a Plant growing on Rof€ leaves, that isabundant- 
y {maller then Mofs; infomuch, that neer 1060. of them would hardly 
make the bignefs of one fingle Plant of Mofs. And by comparing the 
bulk of Mofs, with the bulk of the biggeft kind of Vegetable we meet 
with in Story (of which kind we find in fome hotter climates, 'as'Gaine, 
and Brafile, the ftock or body ‘of fome Trees to be twenty,foot in 
meter, whereas the body or {tem of Mof, for the moft part, is not above 
one fixtieth part of an Inch) we fhall find that the bulk of the ‘one 
will exceed the bulk of the other, no lef then 298598, Millions, 
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