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which, among others, I take to be the fup-- 

 plenefs at fuch time of the whole body of 

 the bark yielding to the preffure of the ge- 

 neral impulfe of the fap within : Whereby 

 it is not conftrained to feek out fuch weak 

 parts therein, where it may beft vent it's feif 

 in manner aforefaid. 



But I proceed to fay — That fuch cold 

 eafterly winds fometimes leave behind them, 

 another effectual means of the ill effeds al- 

 luded to : But what we cannot with our 

 own, nor perhaps could we with Galileo'^ 

 eyes at firft difcover : Thefe are minute Be- 

 ings, latent before in the womb of nature 

 (no new creation) but not difcernible to the 

 naked eye, till they come to be big enough 

 not only to devour the Oak's tender buds, 

 but infant leaves likewife — ^till winds or their 

 own weight bring them to the ground, if 

 not before fetched away by Rooks and Crows^ 

 who are greedy of them ; or death other- 

 wife bereaves them of their worthlefs live&. 

 And of all the obftruftions of this diftrelTed 

 plant's kindly revegetating and recovery ; or 

 that make an operator the more work about 

 lateral germens 5 fuch vernal locufts (Aureli- 

 as the Virtuofi call them, as being of that 



G 4 genus) 



