Mifiellanea Cnriofa. a f 9 



weigh'd 127 Grains, (pent 141 90 Grains of the 

 Liquid Mate. 



The Water feems to afcend up the Veffeis of 

 Plants, in much the fame manner as up a Fiitre ; 

 and 'tis no great wonder that a larger Fiitre 

 mould draw off more Water than a leffer ; or 

 that a Plant that has more and larger Veffeis, 

 fhould take up a greater fhare of the Fluid in 

 which it is fee, than one that has fewer and 

 Imailer ones can. Nor do 1 note this as a thing 

 very confiderable in it felf, but chiefly in regard 

 to what I am about to offer beneath ; and that 

 it- may be feen that, in my other Collations of 

 Things, I made due Allowance for this Dif- 

 ference. 



X. The much greateft fart of the fluid Mafs 9 

 that is thus drawn off and conveyed into the Pla?zts 9 

 does not fettle or abide there , but gaffes through 

 the fores of them, and exhales up into the Atmo» 

 fphere. That the Water in thefe Experiments 

 alcended only through the Veffeis of the Plants, 

 is certain. The Glajfes F and G, that had no 

 Plants in them, though difpofed of in like man- 

 ner as the reft, remain'd at the End of the Ex- 

 periment, as at firft ; and none of the Water 

 was gone off. And that the greateft part of it 

 flies off from the Plant into the Atmofphere, is as 

 certain. The leaft Proportion of the Water 

 expended, was to the Augment of the Plant, 

 as 46 or 5:0 to 1. And in fome the weight of 

 the Water drawn off,: was 100, 200, nay, in 

 one above 7 00 times as much as the Plant had 

 received of Addition. 



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