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haue them lower-mo ft:: And therefore ic was (aid, nor elegantly alone, 
\>ut Philolophically-//0/«o eft Plant* inner ft 5 Man is liken Plant turned 
; vftvnrds: For the Root in Plants, as the Head in Lining Creatures Mifth- 
y, LiuingCfeatures liauea more exadt Figure than Plants. Sixthly ^ Li¬ 
ning Creatures haue mortDiuerfityof Organs within their Bodies, and(as 
; it were) Inward Figures, than Plants haue. Seiienthly, Liuing Creatures 
j hauc Senfe, which Plants haue not. Eighthly, Liuing Creatures haue 
| Voluntary Motion,which plants haue nor. 
j For the Difference of Sexes in plants, they are oftentimes by name 
j diftinguifhed , As Male-Piony, Female-Piony « Alale~Rofe~mary,Femile- 
Roft-mary ; He- Holly, She-Holly ; &o but Generation by Copulation (cer¬ 
tainly) extended! not to Plants. Xhc neereft approach ofit, is betweeiie 
the Hce-Palme, and the shee-Palme • which, (as- they report,) if they 
grow neere, incline the One to the other : In fomuchasi, (that which 
is more ftrangc) they doubt not to report, that to keepe the Trees vp- 
right from Bending,they tie Ropes or Lines, from the one to the other, 
tliac the Contall might be enioyed by the Cental of a Middle Body. But 
rhi- may be faigned, or at leaft Amplified. NeuertbelefTe, I am apt 
enough to thinkc,that this famcBinarium of a Stronger and a Weaker, 
like vnto Majmline and Feminine , doth hold in all Liuing Bodies. It is 
confounded fometimes - As in fome Creatures of PutrifaBi on .wherein 
no Markes of Diftinttion appearc: And it is doubled fometimes s As in 
Hermaphrodites : But generally-there is a Degree of Strength in moft 
Species. 
The Participles or Con finer s betweene plants and Liuing Creatures, are 
fuch chiefly, as are Fixed , and haue no LocallMotion of Remoue, though 
they haue a Motion in their Parts ; Such as are Oyfiers,Cockles ymd fuch 
like. There js a Fabulous Narration, that in the Northerne Countries, 
there fhould be an Herbe that groweth in the iikenefTe of a Lambe, and 
feedeth vponthe GraJJ'e, in fuch fort, as ic will bare the Grajje round 
about. But I fuppofe that the Figure maketh the Fable j For fo we fee, 
there be Bee Flowers, See. And as for the GraJJ'e, it feemeth the plant, 
hauing a great Stalke and Top, doth prey vpon the Grajfie, a good way 
about, by drawing the luyce of the*Earth from it; 
T He IndianFig boweth his Roots downe fo low,in one yeare,as m k 
felfe it taketh Root againe: And fo multiplied! from Root to Root • 
Making of one T ree a kinde of Wood. The Caufe is the Plenty of the Sap, 
and the Softmfj'e of the Stalke, wfiich- maketh the Bough, being oucr- 
loaden, and not fliffely vpheld, weigh downe. It hath Leaner, as broad 
as a little Target, but the Fruit no bigger than Beanes. The Caufe i s, for 
chat the continual i Shade increafeth the Leaues, and abareth the Fruit , 
which nenertheleffe is of apleafant Tafte. And that (no doubt) is cam 
fed, by the Sapplenejji and Gentlencffe of the luyce of that Pfii'kt ftoiM 
that which maketh the Boitghes alfo foFIexible. 
It is reported by one of the Ancients , that there is a certaine Indian 
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