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Bitter Stalk, have not Bitter, but Hot Roots, asin Yarrow Primrofe. 
Wormwood, Rue, Carduus benedittes &c. is manifeft. So the Coats of 
the seeds of Viola Lunariaare of a hot and biting Taft; but the Seeds 
themfelves, in which the Salts, though copious, yet are alfo immerfed 
ina greater quantity of Oyl, are Bitter. And that the Earthy Parts do 
alfo contribute fomething more to this,than to moft of the foremention- 
ed Tafts,is argued from its being more Fixed that is,the Body in which 
it refides, is cither more Fixed, or elfe flyeth not away in that fame 
(tate of conjunction, by which it maketh a Bitter Tafte. For whereas 
Hot, Biting, and divers other Plants lofe the {trength of their Ta/le, 
by drying 5 moft of thofe which are Bitter, do hereby increafe it. And 
although the Extraét of Dandelion and fome other Roots, which are 
very Bitter, hath {carce any Tafts yet generally, they are Bitter Plants, 
which are beft for the making of Extracfs, And the diftilled waters 
of Plants which are Hot and Bitter, notwithftanding that they always 
taft high of the Heat, yet rarely and very faintly of the Bztier. 
13. §. Affringency, 1s made, partly, by the further increafe and 
more intimate union of the Earth, And therefore this is feated ftill in 
a more Fixed Compofition, than a Bitter. And partly, by the diminu- 
tion of the sulphur. And therefore the Acid Parts ingredient to it, 
either by Fermentation or otherwife, are eafily expofed. Affringency 
being the Womb or Bud of a Sower. For all or molt Aftringent Roots 
bear a fower Leaf, or afower Fruits as thofe of all Docks and Sorrels, 
Black-Thoru, Dog-Rofe, and others. Wherefore alfo, <Affringency 1s 
often found in conju@tion with B7tter, Sweet, or Sower 3 but fcarce 
ever with Pungent, or Hot. 
14. §. An Aromatick Taft, feems to be produced, chiefly, by a 
ppirituonsy acid, and volatile Sulphur 5 as in Ambar-griefe, Cardamon- 
Seeds, many Stillatitious Oyls &c. A Nanfeows, by a Sulphur lefs spzré- 
tuos and Volatile, and more Alkaline 5 asin the Root of Dog-fienes,Sheep- 
feabiows, the young and green Leaves of Coriander, or the Seeds of Cu- 
mine. The Spirit, as it enters the Nerves,carrying the Alkaline Sulphur 
along with it; as when a City is betrayed by one of its Inhabitants to 
an Enemy. 
25. g. An Intermittent Taffe, as in Arum, {eems to have its depen- 
dance upon a fimple and very pure Mitre, which by its fubtilty enters 
into the very Concaves of the Nervous Fibers of the Tongue: and fo 
being lodged there, islittle affeGted or ftirred, by the Motion of the 
Blood; but only when the Tongue it (elf is moved, at which time it 
caufeth a kind of pricking Tjfe. 
16. §. A Tremulous Taste, 2s in Pyrethrum, dependeth probably, 
upon an Aereal Sulphur 5 which being agitated by the Blood in its Cir- 
culation, the fpringy Motion or Vibration of the Aereal Parts produce 
that Tajte. 
17.49. A Taft is Lingual, Guitural, &c. according to the grofnels 
or finenefg or other difference of the Membranes into which the ta/fable 
parts are admitted. For Tuffs are made not meerly by the outward 
Contad, but the Tngre[s of the taftable parts, Now the outer Shiz of 
the Tongue, which is commonly obferved to pill off in boyling, like the 
Cuticula 1 other Parts, hath either no fenfe,or much lefs than that which 
lies under it; and is therefore, buta Seive or Strainer to the tastable 
parts. So that being of different finenefs in the feveral parts of the 
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