OF NATURE. 
feme, gave to every one of them fuch a nature*, 
as might be chiefly adapted to the climate ; fo 
that fome of them can bear an intenfe cold, 
others an equal degree of heat ; fome delight 
in dry ground, others in moift, &c. Hence 
the fame plants grow only where there are 
the fame feafons of the year, and the fame 
foil. 
The alpine plants live only in high, and 
cold fituations, and therefore often on the alps 
of Armenia, Switzerland, the Pyreneans, &c. 
whofe tops are equally covered with eternal 
fnows, as thofe of the Lapland alps , plants of 
the fame kind are found, and it would be m 
vain to feek for them any where elfe. It is re- 
markable in relation to the alpine plants, that 
they blow, and ripen their feeds very early, 
otherwife the winter would fteal upon them 
on a fudden, and deftroy them. 
Our northern plants, altho’ they are ex- 
tremely rare every where elfe, yet are found 
in Sibiria, and about Hudfon’s bay, as the 
arbutus , Flor, 339. bramble 412, * winter r 
green , &c. 
Plants impatient of cold live within the tor- 
rid zones •, hence both the Indies tho 5 at fuch a 
diftance from one another have plants in com- 
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