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by it, I fawit had broke out at the next Joint with fe- 
veralShootsof theyellowand green ftrip’d; and not only 
there, but it bad alfo made a drong Shoot from the Roar, 
of yellow and green drip’d$ after a while ! took it up 
with Mold to the Root, and put it in a Pot, and it flou- 
rifh’d all the Summer: And going to fee my Son at 
Magrlalen College , Oxon , I took it with me, and made 
a Prefent of it to the Prefident of the College, where 
it flourifli’d two or three Years, and then for want of 
fhifting the Pot in time, it was matted fo to the bottom 
and Tides of the Pot, that it killed it; I alio at that 
time gave the Fellows of that College , and feveral 
others of my Acquaintance an account of the Circu- 
lation and Defce'nt of the Sap in that Plant, and I 
have try’d feveral ocher forts of variegated Plants, but 
do not find any of them to tranfmute, as that Jeflamine 
will do. 
I am, &c. 
H. Cane. 
V. An Account of fome new Elecirical 'Experiments . 
'Ey Mr, Stephen Gray. 
AVlNG often obferved in the Eledlrical Experi- 
ments made with a Glafs Tube, and a Down Fea- 
ther tied to the end of afmall Stick, that after its Fibres 
had been drawn towards the Tube, when that has been 
withdrawn, mod of them would be drawn to the Stick, 
as if it had been an Eie&rick Body, or as if there bad 
been 
