606 
G07. 
Experiments 
jin Confort, 
j touching the 
A finities and 
Differences of 
Plants, and 
Living Crea- 
tures: nd 
| the Confines 
and Participles | 
| of them. 
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a8. 
|aremorc durable than Plants : Secondly, they are more folid and hard ; 
| and partunder Earth. 
| Metals both; Coralisone of the nearcft of bothkindes; another is Vitrio 
for that is apteft tofprout with moifture. ‘ 
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‘tures. Filthly, Living Creatureshave a more exad Figure than Plants. Sixthly, | 
| Senfe, which Plantshavenot. Eightly, Living Creatures have Voluntaty® 
' theoneto the other, that the contaé might be:enjoyned by the conta 
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Natural Fiiflory, é cf 
_ The differences between runts,and Metals, or Joftiles befides thofe fouk Np 
beforementioned, (for AZtals Lhold inanimate) are thefe: Firft, ¢Werals | 
‘thirdly, they are wholly fubterrany; whereas Plantsarc part above Earth, | 
There be'very few Creatures that patticipate of the Nature of Plants, and | 
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Another fpecial Affinity is between Plants and Mould, or Putrefaction: | 
For all Putrefadion, (if it diffolve notin Arefadion) willin the end iffuein- | 
to Plants or Living Creawuresbred of Putrefattion. Jaccount CMof, ond Atufh- | 
vomes, and Aearick, andother of thofe kindes, to be but AZulds of the Ground, | 
Walls, and Trees;and the like. As for Flesh and Fish and Plants them(elves, ia 
and anumber cf other things, aftera (Wouldinef, or Rortennef, ox Corrupting, | | 
they will fallto breed Worms. Thefe Putrefadions, which have Affinity with 
Plants, have this difference from them; that they have no fucceffion Or pro- |, 
pagation, though they nouri/b, and have a period of Life, and have likewife | 
fume Figure. 4 
I left once, by chance, a Citron cut in a cloferoom, for three Summer- | 
moneths, thatI was abfent; and-atmy return, there were grown forthout } 
of the Pith cut, Zuftsof Hairs,an inchlong, withlictle black Heads as if they | 
would have been fome Herb. | : 
He Affinities and Differences.between Plants and Living Creatures, are} 
thefe that follow. They have both of them Spirits continued and 
branched, andalfoinflamed. Buefirftin Living Creatures the Spirits haye a Cell | 
or Seat, which Plants have not, as was alfo formerly faid.» And fecondly, the } 
Spirits of Living Creatures hold more of Plume, than the Spirits of Plants do; | 
and thefe twoarethe Radical differences. For the Secondary differences, | 
they areas follow. Firft, Plants areall fixed to the Earth; whereasall Living 
Creatures are fevered, and of themfelves. Secondly, Living Creatureshave | 
Local Motion, Plants havenot. Thirdly, Living Creaturesnourifh from } 
their upper parts by the Mouth chiefly; Plants nourifh from below, namely | 
from the Roots. Fourthly, Plantshave their Seed and Seminal parts upper~ | 
moft, Living Creatures have them lowermoft ; and therefore it was {aids} 
not Elegantly alone, but Philofophically: Homee/t Planta inverfa. (Man islike | 
a Plantrurned upwards ; For the Root in Plants, isas the Head in Living Crea=} 
Living © reatureshave more diverfity of Organs within their Bodiesand (as} 
it were).inward Figures than Plants have. Seventhly,Living Creatures have 
Motion, which Plants havenot: og 
eee . 4 hats ona ! 
For the difference of Sexesin Plants, they are oftentimes by name diftin- |) 
guilhed; as 4/ale-Piony, Female. Piony ; ©A¥ale Rofemary, Female:Rofemary ; He- | 
Holly, She-Holly, &¢. But Generation by Copulation (certainly! extendeth 
nottoPlants, The neareft approach of it, is between the He-Palm, and 
Sae-Palm, which (as they report) if they grow near, incline the one t 
others infomuchas, (that whichismore ftrange) they doubtnot to: “t 
that-to. keep the Trees upright frombending, they tye Ropes or Lines: 
middle Body.. But thismay be feigned,iorat leaftamplified. Neverthel 
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