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Sect. XIV. 2.3 



OF PLANTS 



333 



Mr.Tull afcnbes one injury to the healtl, of wheat Plants and f. 

 ,...1. their death, to lightning; the effeas whereof, he f J 



to lightning 



quently 



may be obferved by the blackiOi pai 



wheat, efpecially 



hereof, he fay 



patches vifible in a field 



of 



thofe yeai 



h h 



mor 



der-florm 



th 



d'adds that againft this there is no ren^edy 



?^ ;kr c;;^: uent ^etame points could alone f^cure a gardea 

 IddTom this n.isfortune ; which probably occurs m.-efrequ.Uy 



damp ii 



than on dry 



ed in the account 



f Fairy Rings in Botanic Garden, Vol. L note XIII 



htnino; deftroys th 



The manner in which hghtning deltroys luc .... 



n,ay be fimilar to that, in which it deftroys ammaUife; ^ 



. ^ . , •. . A;rv.-,.lnQ pxhauftinsthe fenforial pov 



fuppofe by its great 



fe of vegetables 



vhich is I 

 'p.r in the 



aflion it occafions, and thus prodocing total iinrntabdity 

 .„ ftimuli, v^hich ought to excite the vM aa.ons of th 

 fimilar to which, though with lefs expedition feems to b 



fyf- 

 the' 



tern- hrai ar to wnicn, Luuug,Li >vv. — j: ^.n-,, 1 . r 



efSa of fome poifons on the ani.al fyftem, as_the dift led water of 



rafu 



folution of arf( 



the contagious matter of fevers 



.„d even a common emetic ; all which by their ftrong ftimulus fee^ 

 1ft inftautaneoufly to render the ftomach. and other parts o he 



fyftem, nearly 



;ly inirritabl 



difobedient to th 



r,^'ay alfo affea vegetables in another way fimilar to that which 

 probabl/alfo happens, .vhen their young ^--lent fl.oots .e rozen . 



that is, by burfting their ve 



as It p 



through them, by 



1 4.^ fV,^ liro-p branches of fome trees,, 



pxnanfive power ; as happens to the large orancncr, 



::rto ftone-buildings, and other bad conduaorsof eledr-cty, whea 

 they are ftruck with lightnmg. 



The expanfive power of ekaricity is not only fhewn by tree nd 



towers being rent by lighttring, but by the found, wh.ch _fucc_eeds the 



paffage of it through 



fince a vacuum, or nearly a vacuum 



fpea^to air muft previoufly be made by the prefence of the elcar.. 



fluid : and the fides of this vacuum rufhing together, when the 



(hing togeth 



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