(3?). 



Conwbrd , Snare z, , Rhvio , Fererim , 'Bonamlcm \ 

 Fonfeca ; and that we begin to lay afide the fear, that 

 from a certain truth , ill confequences may arife:Thac 

 Canon will certainly hold longelt which is bcft built 

 in the bottome. 



It is conceived by foT.e that the immediate caufe 

 of the Growth of the feed , is the Spirit working up- 

 on the Salt and Sulphur , Earth and other conftituent 

 parts or Elements of the Seed : For the Spirit is fup- 

 fofed to bemadeVolatile by the heat of the earth and 

 water , which in Spring and Autumne , (the chcifc 

 times of germination) is of a proper temperature for 

 Fe mentation; and then thefpirit being fa Volatized, 

 and rifeing up and expanding it felf every way aug- 

 ments the whole plant , and diftends the fides of the 

 feed , whereby the growth of the feed plant is effeft- 



Put hoyv it comes to pafle, that the conveyance of 

 thefe expanded particles is ordered to proceed,accord- 

 ing to the lineaments of eachVegctable,noe perfen to 

 my knowledge has yet made any conceit ; and it be- 

 ing beyond any ocular difcovery of the moft acute 

 Searchers, to finde out the Conduits or Trunckes 

 ferving to fo intricate a carriage , and how it comes 

 to pafie , that a feed firft , has its Neb thruft downe 

 without dilatation of the fides , and then , how the 

 upper part ©f the Neb or germen orderly frames the 

 Vegetable above ground info trim a body , rather 

 then a confufed rnafife, I take it not for any part of my 

 taske to enquire. 



I fhall likewife leave it to the imaginations of Phi- 

 lofophers to determine, whether upon the diftention 

 made, it be by an elective faculty in the Seedling, 

 filled up with fimihr parts drawn from the Earthed 



