fumaent nourilhment for men, and brings infancy 

 for the proof of his aficrtion. But I fmde, That 

 Onions, Tulips, and all Bulbous Roots, though 

 they rtioot out a green leaf, yet do very much lcflcn 

 in their weight, and it appears, that this growth is 

 but the moaon of the (lime parts, or fome few o£ 

 them, to fettle and gather in another place, and an- 

 other order or fcituation in relation to each other; 

 for the Onion particularly hath the thicker coverings 

 of the Eulb very much Wretched out, and each co- 

 vering, as it increafeth in length and breadth, by ri- 

 6ng into a leaf, fo the thicknefs confiderable while 

 it covered the Bulb onely, decreafeth proportionably 

 and is molden into a thinner, and more largely ex- 

 tended Veftment. 



I have hun£ up divers Sedum?, Orpines, Tithy- 

 malls, and other fuch Plants, v\hich I imagined moft 

 likely to grow by the Air onely, and to encreafe and 

 be augmented thereby, and found, that by all. my 

 endeavors, though the Plant grew well, yet they al- 

 ways loft weight, and never got the fourth part of a 



grain. 



Aloes likevife, though being hang'd up in the 

 air with a cloith dipped in Sallat Oyl, it fends forth 

 for ma ly years new leaves, yet it always grows lefs 

 and lefs in weight, till at laft the oldeft leaves fal- 

 ling off , and new coming up t ic gws to no* 

 thing, 



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