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It is not impoffiblc, and I bane heard kwrificd, that vpor> Cutthf. I 
doivne of an.Old T imber Tree ,the Stub hath .put out ibcnbr-imes a Tneot) 
another Kinde • As that Beech hath put forth Birch - Which, if k bee 
true, the Caitfe may be, for* that the old Stub is too leant of Iuyce,to put 
forth the former Tree And therefore putteth fonh a Treeoi& toller 
kinde,thatneedeth lefc Nourifhment. 
There is an Opinion in the Coootrey, that if the lame Gwundbenfz, 
fowne, with the Graine that grew vjjon it, it will in the end, grow to be 
ofabaferkinde. 
It is certaine, that in very sterile feeres, Cwne fawns will grow to mA 
other Ki fide. 
Grandiafepe quibm mandauitims Borden s aids, 
Infjdix Lolium, & jleriles dominantur Amng, 
And generally it is a Rule,chat P/hm, that ate brought forth by Culture 
as Cara? 5 will lboner change into other Species, than thole that come of 
themfeluesrFor that Culture giueth but an Adventitious Nature^whkh 
is more eafily put off. 
This workc of the Tranfmutation of Plants, one into ano¬ 
ther,^ inter Magnalia Nature ; For the Trmjmumhn of Spe¬ 
cies is > in the vulgar ( Philofophy, -pronounced Impoffible : 
And certainly, it is a thitsg of difficulty, and requsieth deepe 
Search into Nature : But feeing there appeare Icinc enanifeft 
Inflmces of it, the Opinion of Impoffibihcy is to bee reicdled x 
And the Mearies thereof to bee found our. Wee lee, that in 
Lilting Creatures, that come of Putrefaction, there ss much 
Tranfmutation, of oneinto another $ As CatterpiSars turncm* 
to Flies, &c. Audit (houldfeeme probable, that yvhatfoeuer 
Creature, having life, is generated without Seed, that Creature 
will change out of one Species into another. For it is the 
Seed, and the Nature of it, whichlocketh and bouudeth in 
thcCreature, that it doth not expatiate. So as wee may well 
conclude, that feeing the Earth, of it felfe, doth put forth 
Plants, without Seed, therefore Plants may well hauc a tranf 
migration of Species. Wherefore wanting hfiances , which 
doeoccurre, weefhali giuc Dire&ionsof the moil likely 
Walls; And generally, wee would not haue thole, that read 
this our Workc of Sylua Sjluarum ,account it ftrangc, or thinkej 
that it is an Guer-Hafle, shat wee hauc fee down* Particulars 
juried; For cotitrari wife* in our ownc Eftimation, wee ac¬ 
count fuch Particulars, more worthy, than thofe that arc ai- 
