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give the Reader this account: That May 1658, in 

 Glaffes of water the plants following grew from cut- * 

 ings, and made themfelves roots in the water, by 

 namc,they were Balfamita minor,^Hnts,$edum mul- 

 tifucum,Penny-royall, Bugle, Prunella, water creffe, 

 Purplc-graffe, Peri - incle , Doriashis vound-wort, 

 Crow-foot, Brooklime, Marfh-mallews , Liwrell, 

 Scordium , Tripolium , f-Knor-graffe, ■■Nummularis, 

 minima , Bafil-Mint, Curl-mint, Horf-mint, Panax- 

 cqkmi, Feverfew , and fome others which 1 kept no 

 account of, I have had at other times. 



Plants that upon triall made "by cuttings Maf 

 1658, did not grow being placed in Vialls of wate'r 

 were Mugwort, Rofemary, Stock-oil ly-flo'' v er&, A- 

 laternus, Lavander-cotten, Sage, Armeria's, Camo- 

 mi 11 , Rofemary , Polium montanum. 



Stock-gilly-rlowers , Bavne, Tanfy , Ground fel, 

 Lavander- cotton , Sage , Majorane , being like^ Ifc 

 fet in glaffes of water diffolved into a mufcilage, and 

 fo corrupted before they attained to any roots. 



Plants that were corrupted by the water in fome 

 part of the ftems and fo dyed after leaves fens 

 forth and roots {hot, were > Bafil, Mint , Marfnmat- 

 lovs after it had grown a fpan , Panax-coloni ,Pal- 

 famita minor , after fix weeks growing , which made 

 me doubt whether there were not the fame reafon of 

 the dying of thefe plants that there is of grafts of 

 Pears upon Apples , or Apples upon thorns , which 

 grow for awhile, it may be forre years but furely 

 dye before they arrive to any Maturitye: and fecondly 

 whether this reafon was not the unlikcneffe and di- 

 verfiry of parts between the flock to be nourifbed,rnd 

 the nouri foment appofed thereunto j for though fome 

 ' dyed after leafe and growth made^s purpiewort parti- 



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