Chap. 6. of Nature in Vegetation. \ 8 \ 



foul crafs Water that was left in the Stilly 

 after that in which M^ p. 127, was fet, 

 was drawn off, in conciufion had gain'd in 

 weight above double what that in xht finer 

 and thinner Water had. The 'Proportion of 

 the Augment of that Plant that throve moft^ 

 was, to the Fluid Mafs fpent upon it, but 

 as I to 46. In others it was but as i to 60, 

 100, 2 CO 5 nay, in the Cataputia 'twas but 

 as I to 714. The Mint in B, p. 121, took 

 up 39 gr. of Water a Day^ one Day with 

 another 5 which was much more than the 

 whole Weight of the Plant originally : And 

 yet with all this it gain d not one fourth of 

 a Grain a Day in Weight. Nay, that in H 

 took up 253 Grains a Day of the Fluid^ 

 which was near twice as much 2is its original 

 Weighty it weighing when firft fet in the 

 Water but 127 Grains. And after all the 

 daily Encreafe of the Plant , was no more than 

 gr. 7U. 



6. Spring and Rain-Water contain pretty obferv. 6. 

 near an equal Charge of Vegetable Matter-^ sprmg and 

 River-Water more than either of them. The ^^'^^ - ^^- 

 Plants in the Glaffes A,B,C,^. 1 20, 1 2 1, were '/; '^^'^ 

 at firft of much the fame Size and Weight. On^ntity : 

 At the End of the Experiment, the Mint in pT^?"^ 



Ai 1 • »i r /N Pond-Water 



,p. 120, had gam d 15 gr.out of 2558 gr. mon than 



of Spring-Water: That in B, ^. 121, gr. 17 ^^^^^^^^ 



and an half, out of 3004 gr. of Rain-lVater : 



But that in C had got 26 gr. out of only 2493 



gr. of River-Water. I do not found this Pro- 



pofitipn folely upoa thefe Trials 3 having made 



N 3 fome 



