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in 



them in. Water gently Boyled j And if they be good , they will fprout 

 within half an Houre. 



It is ftrange which is reported, that Bajill too much expofed to the Sunne, 5 21 

 doth turn into Wild Time : Although thofe two Herbs feeme to have fmall 

 Affinity - 7 but B a fill is almoft the onely Hot Herbe , that hath Fat and Suc- 

 culent Leaves-, Which OylinefTe, if it be drawn forth by the Sunne, it ft like 

 it will make a very great Change. 



There is an old Tradition, that Boughs of Oake, put into the Earth,will put 522 

 forth Wild Vines : Which if it be true, ( no doubt,) it is not the Oake that 

 turneth into a Vine, hut the. Oake-bough Putrifying, qualifieththe Earth, to 

 put forth a Vine of it felf. 



It is not impoffible, and I have heard it verified, that upon Cutting down of 5 2 3 

 an OldTimber-Tree^ the Stub hath put out fometimes a Tree of another 

 Kinde 5 As that Beech hath put forth Birch-, Which if it be true, the Cauje 

 may be, for that the old Stub is too fcant of Juyce, to put forth the former 

 Tree; And thcretore putteth forth a Tree of lmaller kind, that needeth lefie 

 Nourifhment. 



There is an Opinion in the Countrey, that' if the fame Ground be oft [own, 524 

 with the Gr awe that grew upon it, it will, in the end, grow to be or a bafer 

 kinde. 



It is certaine, that in Sterile Tears, Corne fowne will grow to an Other 525 

 Kinde. 



Grandia fepe quibus Kiandavimu* Hordea Sulcis, 

 Infcelix Lolium, ejr jleriles dominantur Avena. 



And generally it is a Rule, that plants that are brought forth by Culture, as 

 Come, will fooner change into other Spices , than thofe that come of them- 

 felves.- For that Culture giveth but an Adventitious Nature, which is more 

 eafily put off. 



This wotkc oi the Tranfmmation of plants^ one into another, 

 is inter AUglia Nature : for the Tranfmutation of Species is* in 

 thevulgar philofophy, pronounced Impoflible And certain- 

 ly it is a thing of difficultie, and requireth deep Search into Na- 

 ture : But feeing there appear fome manifeft inflames of it, the 

 Opinion of Impoffibilitie is to bee rejected $ And the meanes 

 thereof to be found out. We fee, that in Lining Creatures, that 

 come of Putrefa&ion^ there is much Tran/kumion, of one into j 

 another; As Caterpillar s turne into Flies % &c. And it mould : 

 keme probable, that whatever Creature^ havinglife,isgene- 1 

 rated withdut Seed* that (feature will change out of one Species 

 into another For it is the Seed, and the Nature of it u hich • 

 lockcdi and boundeth in the Creature, that it doth not expatiate. 

 So as we may well conclude j that feeing the E arrh, of it felf, 

 doth put forth Plmts t without Seed , therefore Plants may j 

 uell have a TranJ migration of Species. Wherefore wanting !«- •;' 

 fiances, which do.? cccurrc, wee (hall give Directions of the 

 moft iitdy fryaUs ■ And generally, we vvculd not have thofe, 



L i [ that ' 



