To which be added, the Trials of puttin^n a Vial full of 
water, feme of thofeHerbs that will flioot and grow in water 
alone, including them in fucfrrReceircrj and pumping out what 
Air you can, to fee whether they will then ftioot3 or not f 
And though fome of thefe Pr^fofals have been formerly begun 
to be Experimented,yec ought they to be diligently profecuted^to 
fee how far the Air is neccffary to Vegetation^ and whether Plants 
do indeed live as much upon the Air^ as the Earth and the 
Branches of them are rooted (as it were) in and quickned bj the 
Air, as their roots are planted and nouriflit in and by the Earth f 
The Experiment heretofore made of this kind^ was^^Thac fome 
Lettice-feed being fown upon fome Earth in the open Air 5 and 
fome of the fame Seed at the fame rime upon other Earth in a 
Glais-Receiver of the above mention*d Engine, afterwards ex- 
haufted of Air the Seed expofed to the Air was grown up an inch 
and a half high, within eight days 5 but thac in the exhaufted 
Receiver, not at alL And, Air being again admitted into the faid 
emptied Receiver, to fee whether any of the Seed would then 
come up 5 it was found,thatinthefpaceof one week it was grown 
up to the height of two or three Inches. 
OBSERVATIONS 
Concerning Emmets or Ants^ their Eggs, Produdion, Progrefs, 
coming to Maturity, Ufe^ ^c. 
7his was communicated hyDoSter Edmund King, FeUow of the 
R. Society, at the In fiance of the PMfhery as foUoweth. 
i.^nr^Here have occurr'd to my Obfervation but three forts of 
J. AntSy commonly without Wings 5 vid. Very Blacky 
Barky Bromy ^nd the third fort of near the colour ufually call'd 
Bkilemort. 
2. Each kind inhabit by themfelves in their feveral Banks 5 
two forts feldom or never being found together* and if either of 
the other two forts be put into the black Ants Bank, 'tis worth 
obferving, what enmity there is betwixt thefe little Creatures, 
and with what violence the Black ones will feize on the Redy never 
leaving to pinch them on theheadwith their i^^wp; or C!aws,till 
they have kill'd them upon the place : which done^ they will car- 
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