14.8 The U^atural Hi/lory 



in his Ucrtm Eyfttttenfis z : Alifma quorundam Cordi a , and Alifma 

 Cytnbaleanthemon Thalii h . Which Authors, and others, we have 

 diligently fearched, and by comparing them together, find the 

 Plant to agree with each Figure, as well as they could do one 

 with another, had they (as indeed they commonly are) been 

 Printed from one Plate. 



14. The Plants which he doubts whether fpecifically dislintl, 

 yet found fo in Oxford-fiire, are alfo Helleborine'' s ; the one his 

 Helleborine flore atro -rubente, and the other Helleborine latifolia 

 montana c , both plentifully growing on S token-Church hills: 

 Whereof the former has fmall narrow leaves, fomwhat like the 

 Paluflm, and growing thicker on the ftalk * whereas thofe of 

 the Utter are broad and much thinner, the ene alfo flowering a 

 full month after the other, which we take to be diftinguifhing 

 CharaEiers enough, though not fo fignally differing in the flowers 

 as Mr. Ray owns his to do ; our latifolia montana coming nearer 

 to that of Gerard, then of him or Vodonxut , having purple 

 flowers, but as deep or deeper than thofe of the Helleborine flore 

 atro rubente. 



15. Of Accidents that are incident to herbaceous Plants, be- 

 fidewhat I have ^een amongft forreigners in Gardens, I have met 

 alfo with fome amongft the natives of Oxford-Jbire ; which I guefs 

 may happen to them (as likewife to all others') moft times through 

 excefs, or defeel in their nourishment. Thus have I feen the slalkj 

 of Dyers-weed and Succory, from a round near the root, fpread 

 themfelves upward into a hroadflat ftalk, as if there were feve~ 

 ral of them fafciated together, occasioned I fuppofe by reafon 

 of the afcent of to much nourifhment for one ftalk, and yet not 

 enough for two. The fafciation (if I may be allowed to coyn fuch 

 a word) being as it were an attempt for two ftaiks, which upon 

 the afcent of furricient fap, is fomtimes accomplifti'd, the flat 

 ftalk then dividing into two, asl obferved it this Summer in a 

 Vraba lutea fdiquh slritlijfimis, and feveral other Plants in the 

 Gardens. 



16. Which accident of Plants the German Virtuofi think only 

 to happen after hard and late Winters^, by reafon whereof in- 

 deed the fap being reftrained fomwhat longer than ordinary, up- 



* Wort: EyBett. Plant. Vernal. Ord.cf.fbl. 5. , Valer. Cordi Hifl. dcVlant-lib. itaf. 107. > loh. Tfa- 

 lii, HarcyniaSaxono-Thuringica,p- 13. In Catalog, plant. Angl. * Mifcellan. curiffa Med.Fhyf. Acad. 

 Nat. Curioforum,An. i.ebferv. 102. 



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