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.of plants do. And these two are the radical differ 

 ences. For the secondary differences, they are 

 as follow : First, plants are all fixed to the 

 earth, whereas all living creatures are severed, 

 and of themselves. Secondly, living creatures 

 have local motion, plants have not. Thirdly* 

 living creatures nourish from their upper parts, by 

 the mouth chiefly ; plants nourish from below, 

 namely, from the roots. Fourthly, plants have their 

 seed and seminal parts uppermost ; living creatures 

 have them lowermost : and therefore it was said, 

 not elegantly alone, but philosophically ; &quot; Homo 

 est planta inversa ;&quot; Man is like a plant turned up 

 wards : for the root in plants is as the head in living 

 creatures. Fifthly, living creatures have a more exact 

 figure than plants. Sixthly, living creatures have 

 more diversity of organs within their bodies, and, 

 as it were, inward figures, than plants have. Se 

 venthly, living creatures have sense, which plants 

 have not. Eighthly, living creatures have voluntary 

 motion, which plants have not. 



608. For the difference of sexes in plants 

 they are oftentimes by name distinguished, as male- 

 piony, female-piony, male-rosemary, female-rosemary, 

 he-holly, she-holly, &c. but generation by copulation 

 certainly extendeth not to plants. The nearest ap 

 proach of it is between the he-palm and the she- 

 palm, which, as they report, if they grow near, incline 

 the one to the other, insomuch as, that which is 

 more strange, they doubt not to report, that to keep 

 the trees upright from bending, they tie ropes or 

 lines from the one to the other, that the contact, 



