n^ The Statural Hiflory 



in the afore-going inftances ; not intending to profecute it fur- 

 ther till I have had more experience, which this my prefent at- 

 tempt ferves to shew the World is yet but fmall. And therefore 

 I haften on to therefidue of the formed flows, which according to 

 my method laid down in the beginning of this Chapter (having 

 done with all fuch as relate to the waters) arethofe thatrefemble 

 any terrestrial bodies ; andamongft them, firft of fuch as belong 

 to the vegetable Kingdom. 



132. Whereof there are fome that reprefent whole Plants, 

 and fuch is the Fungites or Tuberoides, found fomwhere in the 

 Chiltern about Stoke.n-Church-hill, and engraven Tab. 6. Fig. 1. 

 of a cinereous colour without, but a blackFlint within, and live- 

 ly reprefenting one of the fungi letbales non efculenti. 



133. Others there are that refemble only the parts of Plants? 

 and fuclris that depifted Tab. 6. Fig. 1. like zBryony-root broken 

 off' tranfverfly, and fhewing the fibrilldt from the center to the 

 circumference, with the othery?n'< defcending down the fides, and 

 the annulary divifions ; and all thefe in a ffone fo exactly of the co- 

 lour of a Bryony-root, that it would be hard to diftinguifh it, were 

 it not for the weight. This was found in the Quarry-pits of rub- 

 ble ftone near Shot-over hill. * 



134. And others there are again like the Fruits of 'Trees, as in 

 Tab. 6. Fig. 3, and 4. which in general may be called Lapidespy- 

 riformes, whereof the firft is a blach^flint found fomwhere near 

 Bix brand, above eleven inches round, and in bignefs and form 

 refembling the Bell or King-pear: The other a fort of Pebble? 

 whitifh without, and yellow within (as manifeftly appears at the 

 place of the ?rig) in the shape of a Warden-pear, found in the 

 Parish of U^aterSiock, by the Learned and Ingenious Sir George 

 Croke, fomwhere near his houfe. 



135. In the Parish of Whitchurch not far from Hardwickrhoufc, 

 I found a hard ftone in the form of an Apricock., with the Rimula 

 or cleft from the pedicle to theatre, juft as in the true plum, and 

 as depi&ed Tab. 6. Fig. 5. And in the Quarries of rubble ftone 

 near Shotover-hill, I met with a kind of ffar, shot exactly in- 

 to protuberances (and in the whole bulk) like a Mulberry, as in 

 Fig. 6. 



136. On the Cbiltern-K\\\s near to Sherbourn, I found a white 

 Flint, with another fct in it, in the form of a Luca Olive, as in 



Fig. j. 



