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weight. In April it mot out 4 branches, 

 two of which were 3- feet long, the other 

 two were one of them 14 inches, the other 

 9 inches, in length : Thefe all produced 

 fair large leaves. It had loft \\ ounce in 

 weight, and in three weeks more it loft 

 2\ ounces more, and was much withered. 



Experiment VI. 



Spear-mint being a plant that thrives moft 

 kindly in water, ( in order the more ac- 

 curately to obferve what water it would 

 imbibe and perfpire by night and day, in 

 wet or dry weather ) I cemented at r a plant 

 of it m. into the inverted fyphon ryxb 

 (Fig. 2.) The fyphon was \ inch diam. at b y 

 but larger at r. 



I filled it full of water, the plant imbibed 

 the water fo as to make it fall in the 

 day (in Marc!:) near an inch and half from 

 b to t 9 and in the night ~ inch from / to 1 : 

 but one nighr, when it was fo cold, as to 

 make the thermometer fink to the freezing 

 point, then the mint imbibed nothing but 

 hung down its head 3 as did alfo the youno- 

 beans in the garden, their fap being o- rcat _ 



