STUDY XI. 1S7 



lefs artificial watering do they require. Every- 

 gardener knows, that if you frequently water the 

 aloes, or the taper of Peru, you will kill them. 



The feeds of aquatic plants have forms not lefs 

 adapted, than thofe of their leaves, to the places 

 where they are deftined to grow ; they are all con- 

 structed in a manner the mod proper for failing 

 off. Some of them are fafhioned into the figure 

 of (hells, others into boats, rafts, fkiffs, fingle and 

 double canoes, fimilar to thofe of the South-Seas. 

 I can have no doubt, that, by an attentive fludy of 

 this part alone, a great number of very curious 

 difcoveries might be made, reflecting the art of 

 eroding currents of every fort; and I am per- 

 fuaded that the firft men, who were much better 

 obfervers than we are, copied their different me- 

 thods of travelling, by water, after thofe models 

 of Nature, of which we, with all our pretenfions 

 to difcovery, are but feeble imitators. 



The aquatic, or maritime pine, has it's kernels 

 inolofed in a kind of little bony (hoes, notched on 

 the under fide, and covered over, on the upper, 

 with a piece refembling a Chip's hatch. The wal- 

 nut, which delights fo much in the banks of ri- 

 vers, has it's fruit contained in two little boats, 

 whofe apertures are perfectly fitted to each other. 

 The hafel, which becomes fo bufhy on the brink 



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