nt a wane ar 7k.” % "5 gaupemaaaieaaaaiae orea Maes poe _——— 
Congas 8 cas? ian 
} them in Water Bently boiled; and if if gy Pe good, thy wilfproue within half 
| 3 an hour, © ates 
mB: h75Kc ts ftrange which is reported, That Bafil nove) same) expoviedctan tise Sun, 521.9 | 
} doth turninto Wilde Times: Alchough thote two; Herbs feem. tolhave:fmall 
Affinity; but Bafitispalmoft the onely: hor Herb: that hath fat and fucculent | 
Leaves; ‘which Oylinefs if it be drawn se by the Sun, it islike icwill make ! 
| 2 very great change. 
} __ Thereis an old Tradition, that eag of Ouk putintothe Earths will put 522. 
| forth Wilde Vines; which if ir-be true,(aodoubr) it is not.the O«kthat turneth 
J into Vine, but the Onk-bough pa ae qualifierh. the: Barth. to put forth a | 
| Pine of itfelf. Ti 
Tt is nor inapoflibley and Ahave beard it verified; ihe ‘upon diittingdown ERT 
| of an old Timber- Tree, the Stub hath pur our fometimesa Tree ofanother: | 
| Kinde; as thatBeechhath putforth Birch: Which ifit be true, thecaufe may, | 
| be, forthar the old Stub is. too fcant of | Juycero put forth the former Trek; 
| and therefore putteth forth’ a Tree of fmaller Kinde! that spin lels’ Rou: 
ment. +» 
There is an opinion in the Countrey ‘ That if the Gite Saou! be oft 524. 
jfown with the Grain that grew uponir, it will, in rs end, tat to be of a | 
bafer kinde. | ae 
} Ie is certain, that in Sterile Years, Corn fev ‘will grow tor an nother inate 
i inde. . i oe uo . 
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Graniia fepe quibus BREN Hordea Slee, 
lafoclix Lolium, & feriles dominatur Avena.” | io | -8 Ee 
And generally irisa Rule, that Plantsthat are brought forth by Culture, | 
| as‘Corn, will fooner change into other Species,than thofe that come of them-. 
{felves: For eoangoaiieta giveth but an Adventitious Nature, whichisimore | ~ 
pally sa off. i nar ae : 
This nor ei the hereto Plants; on lihen osetia is inter Maz, 
|nalia Natura: For the Tranfmatation of Species is, inthe vulgar Philofophy, pro- 
Jnounced impoffible: And certainly, it is athing of difficulty, and requireth 
deep fearch intoNature :. But {eeing there appear fome manifeft inftances of | 
ty the cpinion of impofi ibility is to. be rejeted, and the means thereof to 
|befound out.» We fee thatin Living Creatures, thatcome of Putrefaction, | 
he ere is much ‘Tranfmutation of one into another. AsCaterpillersturn into 
| , &e. Andit fhould feem probable, that whatfocver Creature having 
i % is generatediwithout Seed, that Creature will change out of one Spe- 
cies into another; for it isthe Seed, and the Nature ef it, which locketh 
id boundeth in the Creature, that it doth not expatiate. So.as we may 
fell conclude, that feeing the Earth of ic felf, doth put forth Plants with. 
ut Seed ; therefore Plants may well have a Tran{migration of Species. 
Vherefore wanting Inftances, which do occur, we fhall give DireQions of 
= likely tryals: And generally, we would nothavethofe that read 
oe of Sylva Sylvarum, account it ftrange, or think that it is an over- 
, that we have tet down particulars untried :, For contrariwife, in our 
i eltintation; we account fuch particulars mote worthy than thofe that 
append tryed and known. For thefe latter mult be taken as you 
de them, but the other do level point blank atthe inventing of caufes | 
d Axioms. ; la , 
L 2 . ’ Firft, 
