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There are Kkewife many Plants, which have Seed- 
Veflels fo contrived , as with a ftring, and fometimes 
fmart noife, when ihey are ripe, to throw oH their 
Seeds feveral ways, to a confiderabie diftance moft 
Plants having Pods, as Furze, (Sc. thofe called , Nolz me 
Tangere\, or Herba Impatkntesycucumis afimnmfirzntS' 
bills, and many others, have this artifice to (owthem- 
felves. Amongft thefe who have this Property, none is 
more fupriziog then one in Jamaica^ called Spirit^weed, 
which when its Seed is ripe, the VefTel containing it, on 
the lead touch of whatever is wet, does inftandy open 
its felf, and with a fmart noife throw its Seeds feveral 
ways to a confiderabie diftance. Likely the Defign of 
Karure being, that the Pvainy Seafon being proper for 
Sowing, its Seed (hould be kept in its Seed^Vellel, the 
befl Preferver of it from Injuries, till then. 
Lychnis's^ Poppies^ AHttrrhinum^Sy and many others, 
have their Seeds in heads, which when ripe, are open at 
top, and by the Winds, and help of their Partitions, 
are fcatter'd and direded to all Quarters. 
Thefe Inftances, and many more, very obvious and 
wonderful, th& not taken notice of, might be given, to 
Ihew the great endeavours of Nature to perfedl the 
Indivlduum^ and propagate the Kind , which for that 
reafon, I am apt to believe, are all (without the lofi. 
of one Species^ Preferved to us from the Creation 
to this day. 
It will be eafy, from theHiftory of i*m jifcumht' 
fore mentioned, to believe, that no ordinary Culture 
could make this Plant rife from its Seed ; and that if 
its Seed were planted in the richeft Ground, it would 
certainly perilh. Wherefore I am of Opinion, that one 
confiderabie way to improve Gardening, and the Cut- 
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