Mifcellanea Cnriofa. 1 a 7 



If there be not as many fores of Corpufcles as 

 are requisite for the Gondii utiori of the main 

 and more effential Parts of the Plant, 'twill not 

 profper at all. If there be thefe, and not in 

 fufficient Plenty, 'twill ftarve, and never ar- 

 rive to its natural Stature : Or if there be any 

 the lefs neceffary and efTemiai Corpufcles wan* 

 ting, there will be fbme failure in the Plant j 

 'twill be defective in Tafte, in Smell, in Colour^ 

 or fbme other way. . But though a Tradr. of 

 Land may happen not to contain Matter proper 

 for the Conftitiuion of icme one peculiar kind 

 of Plant j yet it may for feverai others, and 

 thofe much differing among themfeives. The 

 Vegetative Parricles are commix'd and blended 

 in the Earth, with all the divernty and variety, 

 as well as all r he uncertainly, conceivable. I 

 have given fbme intimations of this 

 elfewhere * and (hall not repeat * 

 them here, but hope in due time & ^ ' P * 228, 

 to put them into a much better 

 Light than that they there ftand in. 



It is not poilible to imagine, how one uni- 

 form, homogeneous Matter, having its Prince 

 pies or Original Parts all of the fame Subftance, 

 Conftitution, Magnitude, Figure, and Gravity, 

 fhould ever conftirute Bodies to egregioufly un- 

 like, in all thofe. refpedts, as Vegetables* of dif- 

 ferent kinds are j nay, even asi the different 

 Pans of .the fame Vegetable. That one fhouli 

 carry a refinous,, another a milky, a third 

 a yellow, a fourth a red Juice, in ins Veins j one af- 

 ford a fragrant, another an offenfive Smell ; one 

 be lweet to the Tafte, another bitter, acid, acerbe, 

 auftere, &c. that one mould be nouriflwng, ano- 

 ther poifbnou?, one purging another afb ingent : In 

 <X% brief, 



