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that, yet ic cannot be for other Reafons: For firft, it is found bur upon 
| cercain Trees; and thofe Trees bearno fuch Fruit, as may allyre that B rd to. 
| fir andfeed uponthem. Jt may be, that Bird feedeth uponthe Miffeltoe- | 
Berries, and fo is often found there 3 which may have given occafion tothe 
tale, But that which maketh an end of thequeftion is, that Miffelroe hath } 
been found to put forth under the Boughs,and not (onely) abovethe Boughs; | 
fo it cannot be anything. thar falleth upon the Bough. M:flutoe groweth | 
chiefly upon Crab-trees, Apples-trecs, fometimes upon H fies, and rarely | 
upon Oaks; the Miffeltoe whereof is counted very Medicinal. It is ever | 
green, Winter and Summer, and beareth a white gliftering Berrys and itisa 
Plant, utterly differing from the Plant, upon which it groweth, Two things | 
therefore may be certainly fetdown: Firft, that Superfetation mult be by 
abundance of Sap, in the Bough that putteth it forth. Secondly, that thar | 
Sap muft be fuch as the Tree doth excern, and cannot aflimilare, for elfe it }_ 
would go into aBough; and befidesjit feemeth to be more fat and nn@uons, | 
than the ordinary Sap of the Tree; both by the Berry whictris clammy, and | 
by that it continueth, green Winter and Summer, which the Tree doth | 
nor. | | 
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This Experiment of Adiffeltoe may give light to other practices; therefore } 
| tryal would be made, by ripping of the Bough of a Crab-tree inthe Bark, and | 
watering of the Wound every day; with warm water dunged, to fee if it I 
would bring forth Miffeltoe, or any fuchlikething. Bur it were yet more | 
likely, to try it with fome other Watering or anointing, that were norfonatu-} 
ral to the Treeas Wateriss as Oyl, or Barm of Drink, &c. So they befuch } 
things askill notthe Bough. . : 
It weregood totry, what Plants would put forth, if they be forbidden } 
to putfortk their natural Boughs: Powl therefore a Trec, and coverit, fome } 
thicknefs with Clay on the top, and fee what it will put forth. I iuppofe it | 
will put forth Roots; for fo will a Cions, beirg turned down into Clay. | 
Therefore in this Experiment alfo, the Tree would be clofed with fomewhat } 
that isnot fo natural to the Plantas Clay is tryit with Leather, or Cloth, or} 
Painting, foitbe not hurtful tothe, Tree. And iris certain, that a Brake hath | 
been known to grow: out of a Pollard. ; a 
A Man may count the Prickes of Trees to bea kinde of Excrefcence, for | 
they will never beBoughs, nor bear Leaves. The Plants that have Prickles, 
are Thorns, Black and White ; Bryer, Rofe, Lemmion-trees, Crab-trees, 
Goosberry, Berberry ; thefe have it inthe Bough. The Plants that have | 
Prickles in the Leaf are, Holly, Juniper, Whin-bufh, Thiftle ; Nettles alfo} | 
have afmallvenemous Prickle; fohath Borrage, but harmlefs. The caufe}) 
mutt be, hafty putting forth, want of moifture, and the clofenefs of the Bark: } 
For the hafte of the Spirit to put forth, and the want of nourifhment to put | 
forth 4 Bough, andthe clofene(s of the Bark, caufe Prickles in Boughs; and | 
therefore they are ever'like a Pyramis, for that the moifture {pendeth after a lite 
tle putting forth. And for Prickles in Leaves, they come alfo of putting forth 
more Juyce intothe Leaf, that can {pred in the Leaf fmoo:h; andtherefore 
the Leaves otherwife are rough, as Burrage and Nettles are. As for the Leaves 
of Holly, they arefmooth, but never plain, but asit were with folds for the 
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560. | | - There ge.alfo Plants, that though they have no Prickles, yet they 
Kinde of Downey or Velvet Rine upon their Leafes; as Rofe-Campion 
Gilliflowers, Cols-foots, Which Down or Nap cometh of a fubtile Spir 
foft or: fat {ubftance: For it is certain, that both Stock-Gilliflowers, 
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