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20. To which if it be objected that 'tis other wife in the Flow- 

 ers of all the Plants above-mentioned, which though of diffe- 

 rent colours from the reft of their /pedes, continue fo (till from 

 year to year, not altering in the Autumn from what they were 

 kh' Spring: Itmuftbe anfwer'd, that notwithftanding what is 

 urged be true, yet fuch conftancy will not warrant them of a dif- 

 ferent /pedes, fince nofeedthey produce will bring more of their 

 kjnd, but only fuch whofe flowers will be of the ordinary colour ; 

 which is fo great an imperfection, that we cannot but fufpeft 

 thefe alfo to be difeafed, and to have their variations only from 

 thence. 



2 1 . Though it muft be confeft, that it's worthy notice too, 

 that many of thefe Plants feem as ftrong, and flourish as well as 

 any others, and produce perhaps their Seed as perfect as any : 

 Why then they fhould be numbred amongft difeafed plants, any 

 more than a- red hair' d man fhould be accounted fo in England^ 

 Or a black haifd one in Denmark, (where I am informed there 

 are fo few, that they commonly paint Judas with black, hair as 

 we do with re d) is a difficulty, I guefs, not eafily avoided ? * e- 

 fpecially fince the difference of colours in flowers may be occafi- 

 oned by the different textures of the ftalks of fome certain plants, 

 as it is in the hair and feathers of Animals, alfo of different co- 

 lours from the reft of their (j>ecies, as (hall be fully made out in 

 the following Chapter. It may therefore perhaps be more fafely 

 concluded, that the different colorations zt leaft of fome of thefe 



flowers, may indeed be accidents, but no accidents of difeafe or 

 imperfeftion. 



22. Which is all I have met with concerning wild herbaceous 

 Plants, and the accidents attending them remarkable in this County, 

 in the relation whereof 1 have been all along fo careful of not 

 impofing on the World, that I have mention'd nothing, except 

 in the F hilofophical part, wherein I have not confulted, and had 

 the approbation of fome of the moft knowing in the Faculty, fuch 

 as the Reverend William Brown B. D. and Fellow of Magdalen 

 College Oxon, Edward Tyfon M. A. John BaniflerM. A. Richard 

 Stapky B. A. and Mr. Jacob Bobart junior, all eminent Bota* 

 nifis. 



23. Of unufual Plants now cultivated in the Fields, to pafs by 

 the ordinary red and white Lammas Wheats, black and white Fjes, 



the 



