Laftly, Why are many Seeds at their firft ripening 

 fo exaclly fledged with wings, but that by the wind > 

 they miy be carried to fuch places as maybe fit wombs 

 to receive and feed them , untill they attaine from 

 the being of feeds the meafure and ftature of perfect 

 plants. 



Another Specimen of the Wifdom of the God of 

 Nature ,may be feen in the regular iituation of Branch- 

 es, and the orderly eruption of Buds, upon every 

 Vegetable ; for, notwit attending the report of my 

 loid Bacon, N*i.*&ifi. Cent. 6. Obftrv. 588. That 

 Trees and Herbs in the ar owing forth of their Boughs 

 and Branches, are not figured, and kjsef no order, but 

 that when they make an eruption, they breaks forth ca- 

 fually , where they finde beft way in their Bark^ and 

 Rinde : 1 finde my felf necessitated to refer that to 

 an exceeding Wifdom, which his. Lord faip refers to 

 chance and cafuaky : For if I obferve aright both Buds 

 and Leaves, and all eruptions, (tend fo on every Ve- 

 getable, as to ferve moft fitly, for moft neceffary 

 ends. 



As to Leaves,the Learned DoStar Brown hath made 

 the Quincunx famous, which may with as great aptnefs 

 be appiyed, and, I think, more univerfaily to the Ca- 

 rnation of Buds, or Germeas. 



This Figure had its name from the numeral Letter 

 V. becaufe the points therein, are the fame with the 

 points or Angles in the faid Letter, and becaufe than 

 as the Letter is capable of infinite multiplications, fo 

 is the Figure, and both in not unlike faibions : Th« 



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