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top, that the feeds may not fall, before they 
are fhook out by ftormy winds. Wings are 
given to many feeds , by the help of which 
they fly far from the mother plant, and often- 
times fpread over a whole countrey. Thefe 
wings confift either of a down, as in moft of 
the compofite flowered plants, or of a mem- 
brane, as in the birch ^ alder , ajh , &c. Hence 
woods , which happen to be confumed by fire, 
or any other accident, will foon be reflored 
again by new plants, difieminated by this 
means. Many kinds of fruits are endued with 
a remarkable elafticity, by the force of which, 
the ripe pericarp throw the feeds to a great 
diftance, as the wood-forrel y the fpurge , the 
phyllanthus , the dittany . Other feeds or peri- 
carps are rough, or provided with hooks; fo 
that they are apt to flick to animals, that pafs 
by them, and by this means are carried to their 
holes where they are both fown, and manured 
by nature’s wonderfull care ; and therefore the 
plants of thefe feeds grow, where others will 
not, as hounds -tongue., agrimony , &c. 
Berries and other pericarps , are by nature 
allotted for aliment to animals, but with this 
condition, that while they eat the pulp they 
fhall fow their feeds \ for when they feed upon 
it 
