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way through them to look upon the 

 Sunne, And in tender plants from mu- 

 ftard feed, (own in the winter, and in 

 a plot of earth placed inwardly again ft a 

 South-window, the tender ftalks of two 

 leaves arofe not ereft, but bending to 

 wards the window , nor looking much 

 higher then the Meridian Sun. And if 

 tbe pot were turned they would work 

 themfelves into their former declinatr 

 on?; making their conver fion by the Eaft. 

 That the Leaves of the Olive and fome 

 other Trees folftitially turn, and pre- 

 cifely tell us, when the Sun is entred 

 Cancer, is (carce expeftable in any Cli 

 mate o and Theephraftvs warily obferves 

 it 5 Yet fomewhat thereof is obfervable 

 in our own, in the leaves of Willows 

 and Sallows, fome weeks after the So!- 

 ftice. But the great Convolvulus or 

 white-flower'd "Bindweed obferves both 

 motions of tbeSuone, while the flower 

 twifts ^Equinoftionally from the left 

 hand to the right, according to the daily 

 revolution 5 The ftalk twincth eclipti- 

 cally from the right to the left, accord- 

 nng to the annual conver fion, 



Some 



