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top, that the feeds may not fall, before they 

 are (hook out by ftormy winds. Wings are 

 given to many feeds^ by the help of which 

 they fly far from the mother plant, and often- 

 times fpread over a whole countrey. Thefe 

 wings confiil either of a down, as in moft of 

 the compofite flowered plants, or of a mem- 

 brane, as in the birch, alder^ ajh^ &cc. Hence 

 woods, which happen to be confumed by fire» 

 or any other accident, will foon be reftored 

 again by new plants, diffeminated by this 

 means. Many kinds of fruits are endued with 

 a remarkable elafl:icity, by the force of which, 

 the ripe pericarps throw the feeds to a great 

 difl:ance, as the wood-forrel, the fpurge^ the 

 phyllanthus, the dittany. Other feeds or peri- 

 carps are rough, or provided with hooks ; fo 

 that they are apt to flick to animals, that pafs 

 by them, and by this means are carried to their 

 holes where they are both fown, and manured 

 by nature's wonderfull care ; and therefore the 

 plants of thefe feeds grow, where others will 

 not, as hounds-tongue, agrimony, &c. 



Berries and other pericarps, are by nature 

 allotted for aliment to animals, but with th\^ 

 condition, that while they eat the pulp they 

 fhall fow their feeds j for when they feed upon 



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