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20, To which if it be objefted that 'tis other wife in the FIow-^ 
ers of z\\ the Plants above-mentioned, which though of diffe- 
rent colours from the reft of their fj^ecies^ continue fo ftiil from 
year to year, not altering in the Autumn from what they were 
ith' Spring: It muft be anfwer'd, that notwithftanding what is 
urged be true, yet fuch conftancy will not warrant them of a dif- 
ferent ffecies^ fince no feed they produce will bring more of their 
kind, but only fuch whofe flowers will be of the ordinary colour ; 
which is fo great an imperfedion, that we cannot but fufpeft 
thefe alfo to be difeaftd^ and to have their variations only from 
thence. 
2 1. Though it muft be confeft, that it's worthy notice too, 
that many of thefe Plants feem as ftrong, and flourifti as well as 
2ny others^ and produce perhaps their Seed as p'erfed as ^;7y : 
Why then they fliould be numbred amongft difeafed plants^ any 
more than a- red haired man fl-iould be accounted fo in England-^ 
or a black hair\l one in Denmark, (where I am informed there 
are fo few, that they commonly paint Judas with black, hair as 
we do with is a difficulty, I guefs, not eafily avoided e- 
fpecially fince the difference of colours in flowers maybe occafi- 
oned by the dift'erent textures of the ftalks of fome certain plants^ 
as it is in the hair and feathers of Animals^ alfo of dift'erent co* 
lours from the reft of their /pecies^ as fliallbe fully made out in 
the following Chapter. It may therefore perhaps be morefafely 
concluded, that the different colorations zt leaft of fome of thefe 
flowers^ may indeed be accidents-, but no accidents of difeafe or 
imperfeftion. 
2 2. Which is all I have met with concerning wild herbaceous 
Plants, and the accidents attending them remarkable in this County, 
in the relation whereof I have been all along fo careful of not 
impofing on the World-, that I have mention'd nothing, except 
in the Philofophical part, wherein I have not confulted, and had 
the approbation of fome of the moft knowing in the Faculty, fuch 
as the Reverend William Brown B. D. and Fellow of Magdalen 
College Oxon, EdwardTyfon K, A, John BaniferU, A. Richard 
Stapley B. A. and Mr. 7acob Bohart junior^ all eminent Bota- 
nifis, 
23. Of unufual Plants now cultivated in the Fields^ to pa/s by 
the ordinary red and white LammmWheats^ black and white Pyes^ 
the 
