2i6 Of Change of 'Species. Chap. XIV. 



Taftes and Flavours of Plants are made in and by 

 the VefTels (e). 



^ Dodtor Woodward fays, < That Water will pafs 

 * Pores and Interlaces, that neither Air, nor any 

 \ other Fluid, will: This enables it to enter the fined 

 4 Tubes and VefTels of Plants, and to introduce the 

 « terreftrial Matter, conveying it to allParts of them ; 

 whilft each, by means of Organs 'tis endow'd with 

 for the Purpoie, intercepts, and aiTumes into itfelf, 

 fuch Particles as arefuitable to its own Nature (/)j 

 letting the reft pafs on through the common. Duffs* 

 Here then he fays plainly, That each Plant re- 

 ceives the terreftrial Matter in grofs, both fuitabie and 



{e) We are convinced, that 'tis the VefTels of Plants that make 

 the different Flavours ;, becaufe there is none of thefe Flavours in 

 the Earth of which they are made, until that has enter'd and been 

 iiicer'd by the vegetable Vefiels. 



{/) If the Doctor's Plants were fo nice in leaving vegetable^ 

 Matter behind, quiet and und;jiurb\i, 'tis a Wonder they would 

 take up the mineral Matter, as, he fays, they did, that kill'd 

 ihcnv'Vlves with Nitre. 



Thefe Plants might, with much left Difficulty, have diftinguifh'd 

 the mineral Matter from the vegetable Matter, than theypDuld. 

 diftinpuilh the different Particles of vegetable Matter from one 

 another, and muri have been very unwile to chufe out the Nitre 

 (their Poifon) from the Water and Earth, and to leave the vege- 

 table Particles behind; none of which could be fo improper to 

 them as the Nitre. 



It may perhaps be objected, that fuch like pernicious Matter 

 kills a Plant by only destroying its Roots, and by clofing the 

 Pores ; which prevents the Nourifhment from entering to maintain 

 its Liie; and that fuch Matter doth not itfelf enter to aft as 

 Poifon upon the Sap, or upon the Vi.-iT.-U of the Body, or Leaves : 

 But it plainly appears that it dor.h enter, and act as Poifon ; for 

 fome of the Pvoots of a Mint, growing in Water, are put 

 Into fait Water, it kills the whole Plant, although the reft of the 

 Roots remaining in the ffefh Water were fufficient to maintain it, 

 if the other Roots had been cut off at the Time they were re- 

 el into the Salt Water ; and alfo all the Leaves, when dead, 

 vvi'l be full of Salt. 



Or if the juice of wild Garlick-feed be made ufe of inftead of 

 t Water, it will have the fame Effect ; and every one of the 

 Mint- leaves will have a ftrong Vails of Garlick in it. 



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