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come a Foetus, or contain the Folia Seminalia of a 
Plant. This methinks is fufficient to anfwer what 
the^ ingenious Mr. Bradley has fo flrenuoufly contend- 
ed tor, Works of Nature , p. 9. & feq. But fince that 
worthy Gentleman has not thought fit to anfwer what 
I have already advancd upon that Subjedi, I may 
hereafter anfwer Ins Objections more at large. 
I could defcant yet more upon this Obfervatiom 
and confider how far this may lead us into the infinite 
Variegations and Stripes, in not only annual Flowers, 
fuch as Poppies, Confolid a Regalis, and Bottles, but alfo 
in perennial Roots ; fuch as Auriculas, Couflips, &c. 
of a lower Size, which is hinted by Mr. Bradley ; he 
having received that Notion from the ingenious 
Mr. Du Bois , as I have been credibly informed ; and 
in Plants of a larger Size, not of a Bulbous, but 
Carnous Root, fuch as Columbines ,* where there is a 
vaft V ariety : And in this Plant it is moll efpecially 
to be obferved, that though the indigenous one, from 
which all the other feem only to be Variations, and 
not determinate Species, be of a blue Colour/ con* 
filling of ten Alternate Petala, viz. five corniculate, 
and five plain ; yet into how many other Kinds of 
Flowers is it fubdivided ,* fuch as pale yellow , with 
bluifh red, purple, dark Stripes vaftly double, blue, 
blackilh red, &c. Some with Corniculate Petala , and 
fome only with plain, and how in fingle Flowers 
it imitates all the Colours we lee Pigeons endow'd with. 
I lay it is worthy of Confideration , whether the Fa- 
rma may do this, fince I do not underlland there has 
been much Art ufed in making thefe Flowers break, 
as Tulips, or to cultivate a Set of Breeders,- but that a 
richer Soil may produce a double Flower,* and aluitable 
Loam may produce the Variety of Colours,* the Farina 
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