(4*5) 
To which may be added, the Trial* of putting in a Yiai full of 
water, fome of thofe Herbs that will fboot and grow in water a- 
lone, including them in fuch a Receiver, and pumping out what 
Air you can, to fee whether th^y will then fhoot, or not t 
Andkhoughfome of thefe Propofals have been formerly begun 
to be Experimented, yet ought they to be diligently profecuted, to 
fee how far the Air is neceflary to Vegetation $ and whether Plants 
do indeedlive as much upon the Air, as the Earth 5 and the Bran- 
ches of them are rooted ( as it were ) in and quickned by the Air, 
as their Roots are planted and nourilht in and by the Earth i 
The Experiment heretofore made of this kinde, was, T hat fome 
Lettice-feed being Town upon fome Earth in the open Air 5 and 
fome of the fame Seed at the fame time upon other Earth in a 
Glafs-Receiverof the above mention’d Engine, afterwards exhau- 
fted of Air-, the Seed expofed to the Air was grown up an inch and 
a half high, within eight days $ but that in the exhaufted Re- 
ceiver, 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, that in the fpace of one week it was grown 
up to the height of two or three Inches, 
OBSERVATIONS 
Concerning Emmets or Ants, their Eggs, Production, Progrefs, 
coming to Maturity, Ufe, &c. 
This was communicated by D 0$ or Edmund King, Fellow of the 
R. Society, at the In fiance oj the Publip)er, as follnveth, 
i;TH« have occurr’d to my Obfervation but three forts of 
A commonly without Wings y vid. Very Black, Dark 
Brown, and the third fort of near the colour ufually call’d Phi- 
lemoft. ■; - 
2. Each kind inhabit by themfelves in their feveral Banks*, 
two forts feldom or never being found together 5 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 th q Black ones will feize on the Red, never lea- 
ving to pinch them on the head with their Forceps or Claws , till 
they have kill’d them upon the place : which done, they will car- 
K k i . ry 
