(4o) 

 !b by Nature originally lotted fpccifically for that 

 pant : or whether there being a continual motion of 

 particles from the earth , prefling upon the plant, 

 thofeonly get entrance wbafe iliapcs and figure? are 

 ftich , as correfpond to the pores in the young Ve- 

 getable ; which meeting in the body of the plant 

 with its conlUtuentpatrs in nature not unlike them- 

 lelves , they eafily are joyned thereto , and fo caufe 

 an augmentation in the whole : or whether diflimilar 

 parcsjcither to fill up theVacuummadeby di'lention, 

 or for other reafons, got up into the plant , doe ob- 

 tain there a change of nature , and from the form, 

 Soul, Archeus , or other principle, are altered from 

 their firil bein^ , into a likeneile of nature with the 

 Seedling , and become homogeneous to it; Thefc are 

 -Quettions , in the determination of which, till I am 

 better informed , I defire to take no fide. 



N. p. Of the emfe of Greewefs in the leaver of Ve- 

 getables. 



It has been made a queflior. by fome what it is that 

 caufes greenneiTe in all Herbes, efpecially fuch wbofe 

 feed , and the (talk, and Leafe , contained therein are 

 white , and whether the cold beating of aire and wa- 

 ter upon Vegetables may not have fome influence in 

 the production of this effect. 



I truely have been tempted to think the affirmative, 

 which is that the coldneiTe and briskneffe of the free 

 aire, in plants that gro* in the land, and the like qua- 

 litie of the water , in water plants produces the ver- 

 dure or greenneffe , that is generally the beauteous 

 Vertment of ail Vegetables , or at the leaft has fome 

 considerable influence as to this produc>.ion:fo.r by ex- 

 perience 



