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abounding in that nouriftiment which produces the 
and wanting that which gives a long Tail, it muft ne- 
ceflarily be like the Mother in thole two particulars. 
So from a White ?Man and Negro Woman a Mejlko is 
born: And from a large Pigeon or Cropper and a fmall 
wild Hen Pigeon, the Young are like neither,- the Egg 
of the Female is not diffident to nourifh the Animalcule 
of the Male, fo as to give it the Size of its Father. And 
thus Plants receive a great alteration from the different 
Soils in which the Seeds are planted. -So Apples brought 
from France are with us in great efteem and what care 
foever we take in the Trees themfelves, yet they foon 
degenerate in our Soil; which change proceeds from the 
different Salts they meet with in the grojnd. And I be- 
lieve if we could take the Emhrio Plant out of one Seed 
and put it into another, fo as it would grow, we fliould 
have a new Plant from thence like to neither : As if we 
"fhould take the Emhrio out of the Wallnut (which 1" will 
liken to the Animalcule of the Horfe') and (b join it to 
the Seed of the Chefinut (which I compare to the Ma* 
trix of the Affe) thai; it would grow, the Plant produced 
by this Union would be a new and unknown Tree. 
Willows are dually planted by thrufting a Stake into 
the Ground in wet places, yet finding feveral young ones 
on the Banks of Rivers, I judged thefe grew from the 
Seed. Wherefore in the beginning of June, examining 
the downy Seeds of thefe Plants,! found ieverai brownifli 
Particles, not much bigger than Sand ; which the Mi- 
crofcope difcover'd to be the Seeds thereof, which are 
contained in feveral little Violet-colour'd Boxes, of which 
in a little Sprig there were 7^ placed by one another, 
each containing 3, 4, or 5 fmall Seeds, encompa&d with 
a pappous Down. Fig, 9. reprefents thefe Seeds of the 
natural bignefs. The Down or Pappous part is joined 
by one common Knot or Center firft, and lb to the Seed, 
and confifts of x, 3, 4, 5 or 6 fmall Threds, which fo 
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