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ri. §. Firft then the various Figures of their feveral Parts fhould 
be obferveds and that with refpeét both tothe Forms, and the Pof- 
tions, by whichtheir Roots, Trunks, Branches, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, 
and Seeds may vary, or agree; and thofe feveral Lizes, by which 
both the faid Varieties are determin’d. In which of thefe Parts, the 
agreement chiefly lies; this being both more obfervable, and more 
material in fome of them 5 lefs in the Root, more in the Flower, or 
Seed. And in how many of thefe Parts together; whether one, more, 
orall. By both which, the Orders and Degrees of Affinity, which 
are many, may be accounted 5 either as to what we ftridly call Kiz- 
dred, orclfe Avalogy. For there are found, not only Herbs account- 
ed of feveral Tribes, which areally’d; and fome of the Smalleft,which 
are of kin to the Greateft : But there are alfo, probably, fome Herbs, 
which have a particular Relation, to many Kinds of shrubs 5 and fome 
Shrubs,to many Kinds of Trees. Thusthe feveral forts of Letwce, are 
of Kin, together in the Firf? Degree, with Exdive, inthe second. The 
feveral Clarys, among{t themfelves in the Firft; with Horehound, in 
the Second, with Lawmium,inthe Third. All Strawberries agree toge- 
ther, inthe Farff Degree; with Cizquefoyl, in the Second 3 with Tor- 
mentil in the Third; and with Avers, éc. in other Degrees more re- 
mote. So Agrimony, hath alike Analogy unto Strawberry; as Goats- 
Rue, hath to Claver: And strawberry, the like unto the Rap as Goos- 
berry to the Vine, or Burnet, to the Rofe. Amongft the feveral Sorts 
of Graff, there are fome which matchall thofe of Corz; which is but a 
greater kind of Graf. So again all Pui, are not only of kin, in their 
feveral Degrees, to one another ; but likewife, to almoft all kinds of 
Trefoyls, as Melilot, Fenugreek, and the common Clavers themfelves ; 
as by comparing not only their Leaves , but Flowers, Seeds, and Cods 
together, may be evident. For the feveral parts of the Flower of a 
Trefoyl, are fo many more Flowers, containing fo many Cods of {mall 
Seeds, all, in fhape, agreeable to the Flowers, Cods, and seeds of Pulfe. 
The fame Relation, which Trefoyls have to the Peas or other Pulfe 5 
Colts-foot, hath to Buttyr-Burs Chickweed to Leucanthemum; Ground- 
fell, to Facobea or Scorodonia,to Foxglove: Or, to go higher, as the 
Leguminous Kinds of Herbs, have to Seza, or fome other of the Lobed 
Shrubs and Trees. And, as among: Avimals, there arefome which ‘con- 
ne& feveral Kinds; as the Batt doth Beafts and Birds: So, among 
Plants, there are fome alfo, whichfeem to {tand between two Tribes 5 
as Lappa, between Kzapweeds and Thiftles; Lampfana, between the 
Intybaceows Kind, and the Moufe-ears. 
12. §._ From hencelikewife, the Natures of Plants may be conje- 
Gured. For in looking upon divers Plants, though of different 
Names and Kinds , yet iffome affinity may be found betwixt them, 
thenthe Nature ofany one of.them being well known, we have thence 
ground of conjecture, asto the Nature of all the re{t. So that as eve- 
ry Plant may have fomewhat of Nature individual to it felfs f0,as far 
asit obtaineth any Vaftble Communities with other Plants, fo far, may 
it partake of Common Nature with thofe alfo. Thus the Wald, and 
Garden Cucumers, have this difference ; that the one purgeth ftrongly, 
the other, wot at al: yetin being Diuretick, they both agree. The 
Natures of Umbelliferovs Plants, we know, are various; yet ‘tis moft 
probable, that they all agree in this one, fez. in being Carminative. 
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