Xll CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

 Of the Procerity and Lowness of Plants, and of Artificial 



Dwarfing them - 252 

 Of the Rudiments of Plants, and of the Excrescences 



of Plants, or Super-plants - - 253 



Of Producing Perfect Plants without Seed 26& 



Of Foreign Plants - 265 



Of the Seasons of Several Plants - - 266 



Of the Lasting of Plants - - 268 



Of Several Figures of Plants - 27Q 



Of Some Principal Differences in Plants - - 27$ 



Of all Manner of Composts and Helps for Ground - 27$ 



CENTURY VII. 



Of the Affinities and Differences between Plants, and 



Bodies Inanimate 28(J 

 Of Affinities and Differences between Plants and Liv 

 ing Creatures, and of the Confiners and Partici 

 ples of both 282 

 Of Plants, Experiments Promiscuous 284 

 Of the Healing of Wounds - - 352 

 Of Fat diffused in Flesh - ib. 

 Of Ripening Drink speedily . - 353 

 Of Pilqsity and Plumage - ib. 

 Of the Quickness of Motion in Birds - 354 

 Of the Clearness of the Sea, the North Wind blowing ib. 

 Of the Different Heats of Fire and Boiling Water 355 

 Of the Qualifications of Heat by Moisture - ib. 

 Of Yawning - 356 

 Of the Hiccough - ib. 

 Of Sneezing - , , 357 

 Of the Tenderness of the Teeth - . - ib. 

 Of the Tongue . 353 

 Of the Mouth out of Taste ib. 

 Of some Prognostics of Pestilential Seasons ib. 

 Of Special Simples for Medicines 359 

 Of Venus - . 360 

 Of the Insecta, or Creatures bred of Putrefaction - 362 

 Of Leaping 367 

 Of the Pleasures and Displeasures of Hearing, and of 



the other Senses - - 368 



CENTURY VIII. 



Of Veins of Earth Medicinal 370 



Of Spunges - - ib. 



Of Sea-fish in Fresh Waters - 371 



Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance - - ib. 



Of Certain Drinks in Turkey - - 372 



