Chap. 6. of Nature in Vegetation. 173 



with this in L, f. 126, but had none of that 

 £7r/)& ijiix'd with it 3 yet, in a (hort time the 

 flant not only overtook, but much out-fiript 

 thofe, and at the end of the Experim.ent was 

 very confiderably hgger and heavier than ei- 

 ther of them. In like manner, the Mint 

 in N, ^. 127, tho' lefs at the beginning than 

 that in M, being fet in that thick, turbid, /<?- 

 culent Water, that remained behind, after 

 that wherein M, p. 127, was placed, was 

 difiiird off, had in fine more than douhVd its 

 Original Weight and Bulk, and received a- 

 bove twice the additional Encreafe than^i?^^^ in 

 M, which Hood in iht thinner diftiirdJFater^ 

 had done 5 and, which is not lefs confidera- 

 ble, had not drawn off half the Quantity of 

 Water th^t thathsidi. 



Why, in the beginning of this Article, I 

 limit the Proportion of the Augment of the 

 Tlant to the Quantity oi proper TtvxtHndi 

 Matter in the Water, is, becaufe all, even 

 the Vegetable Matter, to fay nothing of the 

 Mineral^ is not proper for the Nourifliment 

 of every Plant, There may be, and doubtlefs 

 are, fo7/ie Parts in different Species of Plants, 

 that may be much alike, and fo owe their 

 fupply to xht {^mt com?non Matter: But 'tis 

 plain all cannot. And there are other Parts 

 io differing^ that 'tis no-ways credible they 

 fhould be form'd all out of the fame fort of 

 Corpufcles. So far from it, that there want 

 not good Indications, as we fliall fee by and 

 by, that every Kind of Vegetable requires a 



peculiar 



