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Experiments 
in Confort, 
touching the 
Affinities, and 
DtfftWKts, of 
Plants, and Li- 
u'mgCreaturts: 
And the Confi- 
ners and Parti, 
eiples of them, 
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to be Inflamed, then they gather a much greater Heat, than others haue 
Vn-injlamed-, befides their Light, and Motion, See. 
The Differences, which are Secondary, and proceed from thefe two 
Radical} Differences, arc- Firft, Plants axtdW Figurate and Determinates, 
which Inanimate Bodies are not; For looke how farre the spirit is able 
to Spread and Continue itfelfe- So farre goeththe shape, ox Figures ; 
And then is determined. Secondly, Plants doe nourifh 5 Inanimate Bodies 
doe not: They haue an Accretion, but no Alimentation. Thirdly, Plants 
haueaPejWof Life^ which Inanimate Bodies hauenot. Fourthly, they 
haue a Succefton, and Propagation of their Kinde - which is not in Bodies 
Inanimates. 
The Differences betvveene Plants, and Metalls or Fifties, befides thole 
foure before mentioned, (For Metalls I hqld Inanimate,) are thde: Firft, 
Metalls are more Durable than Plants: Secondly, rhey are more Solid and 
Hard: Thirdly, they are wholly Subterrany ; Whereas Plants are part 
aboue Earth, and part vnder Earth. . 
There be very few Creatures, that participate of the Nature of Plants, 
and Metalls both; Cor alii s one of theNeareft of both Kinde s .• Another 
is ritrioll, for that isapteft to fprout with Moifiure . 
Another fpeciall Affinity is betweene Plants and UMould or Putrefacti¬ 
on : For all PutrefaBion (if it diflolue it not in ArefaBion) will in the end 
ifllie into Plants, or Lining Creatures bred of Putre/aBion. I account Moffe, 
and Mufhromes, and Agaricke, and other of thole kinds, to be but Moulds 
of the Ground, Walls, and Trees, and the like. As for Fie ft, and Fi/h, and j 
Plants themfelucs, and a number of other things, af ter a Mouldineffe, or 
Rottenneffe, ox Corrupting, they will fall to breed Wormes. Thefe Putrefa- \ 
Bions, which haue Affinity with Plants, haue this Difference from them; 
That they haue no Succefiou or Propagation, though they Nourifh, and haue 
a Period of Life, and haue likewife fome Figure. 
Ileft once, by chance, a Citron cut, inaclofe Roome, for three Sum- 
mer-Moneths,that I was abfent; And at my Returne,there were growne 
fortb 5 out of the Pith cut, Tufts of Haires, an Inch long, with little blacke 
Heads, as if they would haue beene fome Herbe. 
T He Affinities and Differences betweene Plants and Lining Creatures, 
are the 1 c that follow. They haue both of them Spirits Continued,and 
Branched, and alfo Inflamed : But firft in Lining Creatures, the Spirits 
haue a Cell ox Seat, which Plants haue not; As was alfo formerly faid: 
And fecondly, the Spirits oi Liuing Creatures hold more of Flame, than 
the Spirits of Plants doe. And thefe two ate th gRadicall Differences. For j 
the Secondary Differences, they are as follow. Firft, Plants are all Fixed 
to the Earth * Whereas all Liuing Creatures are feuered, and of them- 
fejues. Secondly, Liuing Creatures haue Locall Motion ; Plants haue nor. 
Thirdly, Liuing Creatures nourifh from theixFpper Parts , by the Mouth 
chiefly • nourifh from below, namely from the Roots. Fourthly , | 
Plants haue their Seed and Seminall Parts vppermoft ; Lining Creature, ■ 
