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moveable Apices fixt on the (lender points 

 of the Stamina, whereby it might eafiiy with 

 the leaft breath of wind be difperfed in the 

 air, thereby furrounding the plant, as it were, 

 with an Atmofphere of fubiimed fulphur- 

 eouspounce?for many trees and plants abound 

 with it, which uniting with the air particles, 

 they may perhaps be infpired at feveral parts 

 of the plant, and efpecially at the c Piftillum % 

 and be thence conveyed to the Capfula 

 feminalis, efpecially towards evening, and in 

 the night when the beautiful Tetala of the 

 flowers are clofed up, and they, with all 

 the other parts of the vegetable, are in a 

 ftrongly imbibing ftatc. And if to thefe 

 united fulphurcous and aereal particles we 

 fuppofe fome particles of light to be joyned, 

 for Sir Ifaac Newton has found that fulphur 

 attracts light ftrongly, then the refult of 

 thefe three by far the moft a£hve principles 

 in nature will be a TunElum Saliens to 

 invigorate the feminal plant : And thus we 

 are at laft conduced by the regular Analyfis 

 of vegetable nature to the firft enlivening 

 principle of their minuteft origin. 



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