it felfe. Whereas in the variation of feed , in thofe 

 vegetables,in which the change is undoubted, the co* 

 lour only or fifcne other ealily alterable accidents,fuch 

 as the feniible qualities are generally found are trans- 

 muted , and this transmutation ends not at all in a- 

 nother divers kind ; »but in feverall fmall diverfities 

 of the fame kind ; The iioryes of Wheat turned to 

 Muihrd- feed were as likely to be true , and is a fk 

 paraliell to create a right bcleife of the true caufe o£ 

 the mentioned effect. Secondly, I knew a Gentleman 

 who plowed a piece of land in the ipring , and then 

 foved it nor j but after it was harrowed and prepared 

 fo: feed left it to its own Genius and nature to pro- 

 duce what it was inclined to : The Ground was on its 

 own Nature apt to bring forth wild-Oatas amidft the 

 Corn , now in defeat of Corn there grew as many 

 wild-Oat es unmixt from any other weeds, as the land 

 could carry. This was tryed in a great peice of land, 

 and much proffit was made of the Oates, the Gentle- 

 man having cut them green for Fodder Anno 1657. 



My judgment therefore is, That the fallacy which 

 befell my above named Relators was, that they mi- 

 Rook the caufe of the production of the Oates menti- 

 oned; for to me it is much moreeafie to conceive, 

 that by tome evill accident, as it often happens ( the 

 feed corn being corrupted and periih't in the ground) 

 the ground it's felf from its own Seminary , fent out; 

 the fuppolititious Crop of Oates or Muftard,than that 

 there fhould be a variety of fo ftrange a Nature, and 

 declenhon from its property ,in the iflue of any • fpe- 

 cies. 



It is indeed grovven to be a great que(lion,whethec 

 the tranfmutationof a fpecies be polTible either in the 

 vegetable. Animal, or Mineral! kingdome. For the 



poflibility 



