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fermg amongft themfelves. The 'vegetative ParHcles' 
are commixt ^nd blended in the Earth, with all the di- 
verfity and variety^ as well as all the uncertainty conceiv- 
able. I have given fome Intimations of this elfewhere -f*, + Nat. Htft,. 
and fhall not repeat them here : but hope in due time ^^^^^ 
to put them into a much better light than that they there 
ftand in. 
It is not poffible to imagine how one^ uniform, homo- 
geneous Matter, having its Principles or Origind Parts 
all of the fame Subjiance, Conjiitution, Magnitude, Fi- 
gure^ and Gravity, fhould ever conftitute Bodies fo egre- 
gioufly unlike^ in all thofe refpeSts as Vegetables of diffe- 
rent kinds are : nay even as the different Parts of the 
fame Vegetable, That one (hould carry a Refnous, ano- 
ther a Milky, a third a Tellow, a fourth a Red Juice, in 
its Veins: one afford a Fragrant, another an offenfve 
fmell : one be fweet to the T*^^', another bitter, acid^ 
acerb^ auftere^ &c. that one fliould be nourijhing, ano- / 
ther poyfonous, one purging, another aftringent : in brief, 
that there fhould be that vaft difference in them in their 
feveral Conftitutions, Makes, Properties, and Effe5is, and 
yet all arife from the very fame fort of Matter^ would 
be very ftrange. And, to Note that by the by, this 
Argument makes equally ftrong again ft thofe who fup- 
pofe meer Water the Matter out of which all Bodies are 
form'd. 
The Cataputia in the Glafs E. received but very little 
Encreafe, only three grains and an half all the while it 
flood, tho* 2501 grains of Water were fpent upon it. 
1 will not fay the reafon was becaufe that Water did not 
contain in it Matter fit and proper for the Nourifhqient 
of that peculiar and remarkable Plant, No, it may be 
the Water was not a proper Medium for it to grow in ; 
and we know there are very 7nany Plants that will not 
thrive in it. Too much of that Liquor, in fome Plants, 
may 
