Cyrus-Garde*, Or 



by the root, there may be a refedion 

 and imbibition from without; For gen 

 tle fhowrs refreCb plants, though they 

 enter not their roots 3 And the good and 

 bad effluviums of Vegetables, promote 

 or debilitate each other* So Ep itbymum 

 and "Dodder^ rootlefle and out of the 

 ground, maintain tbemfelves upon 

 Thyme, Savory, and plants, whereon 

 they hang* And Ivy divided from the root, 

 we have obferved to live (bme years, by 

 the cirrous parts commonly conceived 

 but as tenacles and holdfafhunto it.The 

 ftalks of mint crop t from the root (hip 

 ped from the leaves,and fet in gUffcs with 

 the root end upward,& out of the water, 

 we have obferved to fend forth fprcuts 

 and leaves without the aid of roots, and 

 fcordiunt to grow in like manner, the 

 leaves fet downward in water. To omit 

 feverall Sea* plants, which grow on fin- 

 gle roots from ftones, although in very 

 many there are fide-fboots andy?ra,be- 

 fide the fattening root. 



By this open pofition they were fair 

 ly expofed unto the rayesof Moon and 

 Suncc, (o coafiderable in tht growth of 



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