Chap. 6. of Nature in Vegetation. 1 6y 



mended and cleared up apace, changing into a 

 Temper much more dry and [erene than before. 



Nor does this Humidity go ofF pire and 

 alone^ but ufually bears forth with it 

 many Parts of the fa?ne "Nature with thofe 

 whereof the Plant through which it pafles 

 confifts. The Crajfer indeed are not fo ea- 

 fily borne up into the Atmofphere, but ^re ufu- 

 ally depofited on the Surface of the Flowers, 

 Leaves^ and other Parts of the Plants. Hence 

 come our Manna\ our Honies^ and other 

 Gumvious Exudations of Vegetables : But the 

 finer and lighter Parts are with greater Eafe 

 fent up into the Atmofphere. Thence they 

 are conveyed to our Organs of Smell, by the 

 Air we draw in Refpiraiion^ and are pleafant 

 or offenfive^ beneficent or injurious to us, ac- 

 cording to the Nature of the Plants from 

 whence they arife. And fince tbefe owe 

 their Rife to the Water that afcends out of 

 the Earth through the Bodies of Plants, we 

 cannot but be far to feek for the Caufe why 

 tbey are more numerous in the Air, and we 

 find a greater Quantity of Odours exhaling 

 from Vegetables in vparm, humid Seafons, than 

 in any other whatever. 



3. A great Part of the Terreftrial Matter obferv. 3, 

 that is mix'd mth the Water, afcends up into 

 the Plant, as well as the Water. There was 

 much more Terreftrial Matter at the end of ■ 

 the Experiment, in the Water of the Glaffes F 

 andG, ^. 123, that had no Plants in them^ 

 than in thofe that had Plants, The Garden 

 •^'^ M 4 Mould 



