The QmfiCHnx Miftically Cmftdered* 



and the meridionall lines ftand wider 

 upon one fide then the other. And 

 where the largeneffe will make up the 

 number of planetical Orbes, that of Lu 

 na, and the lower planets excede thedi- 

 menfions of S*twne, and the higher : 

 Whether the like be not verified in the 

 Circles of the large roots of Briony and 

 Mandrakes, or why in the fcnotts of 

 Deale or Firre the Circles are often ec- 

 centricall, although not in a plane, but 

 vertical and right pofition,deferves a fur 

 ther enquiry. 



Whether there be not fbme irregula 

 rity of roundnefle in moft plants accor 

 ding to their pofition ? Whether fome 

 fmall comprcffioo of pores be not per 

 ceptible in parts which ftand againft the 

 cnrrent of waters, as in Reeds, Bull- 

 rufces, and other vegetables toward the 

 itreaming quarter, may alfo be obfer- 

 ved, and therefore fuch as are long and 

 weak, are commonly contrived into a 

 roundnefle of figure., whereby the wa 

 ter prefleth lefie, and flippeth more 

 fmoothly from them, and even in flags 

 of flat-figured leaves, the greater part 



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