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fomc, ^ave to every one of them fuch a nature, 

 as might be chiefly adapted to the cHmate •, fo 

 that fome of them can bear an inteqfe cold, 

 others an equal degree of heat ; fome delight 

 in dry ground, others in moifl, ^c. Hence 

 the lame plants grow only where there are 

 the fame feafons of -tiie year, and the fame 

 foil. 



The alpjm plants live only in high, and 

 cold fituations, and therefore often on the alps 

 of Armenia, Switzerland, the Pyreneans, &:c. 

 whofe tops are equally covered with eternal 

 fnows, as thofe of the Lapland alps, plants of 

 the fame kind arc fouiu^ and it w^ould be in 

 vain to feek for them any where elfe. It is re- 

 markable in relation to the alpine plants, that 

 they blow, and ripen their feeds very early, 

 otherwife the winter would ileal upon them 

 on a fudden, and deftroy them. 



Our northern plants, altho' they are ex- 

 tremely rare every v/here elfe, yet are found 

 in Sibiria, and about Hudfon's bay. as the 

 arbutus^ Floy. 339. bramble ^12. 'uj^nter^ 

 green, &c. 



Plants impatient of cold live wichin the tor- 

 rid zones ; hence both the Indies tho' at luch a 

 diftance from one anotlier have plants in com- 

 P 9 ru^-'H, 



