( 45 $) 
Weight* Lois. 
Otwc. Drams, Scrap. Grams. Scruples. Grains] 
Augufl 
19 . 
21 
— 3 
• 0 — “* 
24 
3 ~ 
— 27 > 
Septemb. 
6. ~~ 
21 
— 1 2 
— 0 — 
0 
1 
February 20. — 
21 
— 1 
— 0 * — 
12 
0 « — ■ 
-XI 
March 
16. • — — 
21 
G 
• — - 2 ■ — - 
© 
© — 
3% 
April 
8 . 
21 
— O 
— 0 — 
© 
© 
4© 
May 
1. 
20 
— 7 
- — 0 - — 
0 
1 
0 
May 
28. — ™ 
20 
—51 
— 0 — 
G 
*2 
— @ • 
~fune 
12. — 
20 
— 4 
— 0 - — 
4 
z — 
— 26 
guly 
1. 
20 
— 1 
- — 0 — . 
8 
2 — 
— x8 
rfuly 
20. — 
19 
— 6 
_ 0 — - 
1 
:> 
— 7 
Auguft 
4. 
19 
— 3 
- — 0 — 
12 
2 
— 49 
So that in a whole year it loft 2 ounces , 3 Dr ams , 24 Grains, 
The fucceeding year being drier and hotter, it loft 3 Ounces , 
2 1 Scruples 5 and more than double in the 6 colaer , than the 6 hot- 
ter Moneths. I kept it about 5 years , and it decreafed much a- 
bout the fame proportion. And in the year 1 660 , hanging it in a 
colder Garret, itperifhed. 
T hefe Obfervables I had about it, that every Year two of the 
greater Leaves firft changed Colour, and wither d $ and in the 
Spring-ume, there grew out two very frefh and green ones, never 
amounting to the bignes of any of tne precedentdnfomuch,that all 
this time I had the fame number of Leaves. And then, thefe new 
Leaves were more frefh and green, and not ferrated,and thicker alfo 
in proportion to their other Dimenfions. V 7 hence perhaps it may 
probably be inferred, vid. from the;growni of thefe latter Leaves, 
that there ; is a Circulation in this Plant of the Saccos nutnUus 
Fob how ls it poffible, that the Roots,coritinuing as rbrni ; and foiid 
as at firft, fhould fupply fo much nourifhment, as to pioaeate nm » 
Leaves, unleft It' were from the return of thefaid Succus from the . 
-oBand: decaying Leaves j into the Root, and there pi otruded tor the j 
produdfion of new ones < For, all Bulbous Ropts, as Garlick, Oni- - 
ons. Tulips, and efpecially Squils, who protrude their Leaves, pla- 
ced in a Shop 01 Houfe,have their Roots. lighter, and more ipangy 9 
