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on fudden thaws, may probably be feat up mote forcibly and /o- 

 get her, and fo produce thek fafciated ftalks ; whereas the natu- 

 ral and graduated afcent would have produced them but fingle- 

 Yet experience has taught us this prefent year i6j6i that fuch 

 productions muft by no means be thus reftrained ; the Winter 

 preceding, in Anno 167$. being one of the mildeft ever known 

 in England, and yet fajciated Plants as frequent as ever; 



1 7. Befide thofe, we have obferved fome others here curioufty 

 ftriped ; fome of them yellow, as Dens Leonis, C aryophylldta, Vr- 

 tica urens, isrc. others white, as Papaver fyumeum, Plantago quinque 

 nervia, Cruciata, Calamintha aquatica, ijrc. Others again differing 

 from the reft of their kind, not in leaves, but colour of. their 

 flowers ; fuch are Lamium ruhrum, Lyfimachia [iliquofa magnoflore i 

 Tr ache Hum minus, Gentianella fugax minor, Anagallvs terreftm, ($ 

 aquatica five Becahunga, cum mult Is aim, all with white flowers ; 

 and Hyacinths, we have fomtimes found v/ith red, and white flow- 

 ers : All which, I guefs accidentally accrew to thefe Plants (their 

 fpecies's having flowers of different colours) through defecl, or 

 fome interception of their nourishment^ which occafion difeafes^ 

 and fuch difcolorations both in their leaves and flowers. 



1 8. That this is true of all ftriped Plants, is manifeft, in that 

 fuch dijcolorations may- be procured by artificial fubitra&ion of 

 the nourishment, vi%. by applying Lime, or other hot dry matter 

 to their roots ; which drying up, or otherwife ' rendring the 

 nourijlment unfit, will thus make the Plants ftriped ; as our very 

 Learned Botanic Profejfor, Dr. Mori/on, informs us he obferved it 

 in Dulcamara creeping through Lime and other rubbifhof Build- 

 ings, at the Duh of Orleans his Houfe at Blois, whence not only 

 ours, but moft other Gardens of Europe have fince been fupplyed 

 with the white ftriped Dulcamara. 



19. Moreover, that fnch ftripings are nothing but difeafe, ap- 

 pears plainly in that moft, if not all ftriped Plants, are fomwhat 

 deformed and imperfett in their leaves ; and though ftriped very 

 lively in the beginning of the Spring, will many of them recover 

 in fome meafure, at leaft before Autumn, and fome of them have 

 their leaves at length as green, as the reft of the healthy Plants of 

 their kind'. Which I take to be manifeft arguments of their fickr 

 neft, and fuch ftripings to be only difcolorations and no ornaments 

 of perfection, though ornaments of our Gardens. 



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