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And this is alfb agreeable unto water 

 it felf, the alimental vehicle of plants, 

 which firft altereth into this colour 5 And 

 containing many vegetable feminalitics, 

 revealeth their Seeds by greenneflc \ and 

 therefore fooneft expefted in rain or 

 ftanding water, not eafily found in di- 

 ftilled or water ftrongly boiled ; where 

 in the Seeds are extinguifhed by fire and 

 decoftion. and therefore laft long and 

 pure without fuch alteration, affording 

 neither uliginous coars, gnatworms, A~ 

 carii hair-worms) like crude and com 

 mon water j And therefore moft fir for 

 wholfome beverage, and with malt 

 makes Ale ?nd Beer without boyling. 

 What large water-drinkers fome Plants 

 are, the Canary-Tree and Birches in 

 fome Northern Countries, drenching 

 the Fields about themdofuffidientlyde- 

 monflrate How water it Cell is able to 

 maintain the growth of Vegetables, and 

 without extinfliop of their generative or 

 medicall venues ^ Befide the ^xpcrf- 

 ment of Htlwonts tree, we have found 

 in fome which have lived fix years in 

 glaflfes. The feeds of Scurvy-graffe 

 N - growing 



