9 * Vegetable Statich . 
/ r, and then filling the tube with water, 
fee its lower end in the mercury X\ fo that 
now the branch was placed with its top i 
downwards in the water, in the Aqueo- 
mercurial gage. 
It imbibed the water with fuch ftrength, 
as to raife the mercury with an almoft equa- 
ble progrefilon 1 1 -f- v inches by 3 a clock, 
(the fun Aiming then very warm) at which 
time the water in the tube ri being ail im- 
bibed 5 fo that the end i of the branch was 
out of the water, then the air bubbles paf- 
fing more freely down to and no water 
being imbibed, the mercury fubfided 2 or 5 
inches in an hour. 
At a quarter paft 4 a clock, I refilled the 
gage with water, upon which the mercury 
rofe afrefii from the ciftern, viz. 6 inches 
the firft ^ of an hour, and in an hour more 
the mercury reached the fame height as be- 
fore, viz. 1 1 -j- 4* inches. And in an hour 
and tr more it rofe ^ inch more than at firft; 
but in half an hour after this it began gently 
to fubfide ; viz. becaufe the fun declining 
and fetting, the perfpiration of the leaves 
decreafed, and confequently the imbibing 
of the water at i abated, for the end i was 
then an inch in water. 
