Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            Campions, ſtamped, have been applied (with ſucceſs) to the Wreſts of
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            thoſe that have had Tertian or Quartan Agues; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5047" xml:space="preserve">and the Vapor or Colts-foot
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            have a ſanative vertue towards the Lungs, and the Leaf alſo is healing in
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            Surgery.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5049" xml:space="preserve">Another kinde of Fxcreſcence is an Exudation of Plants, joyned with
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-01" xlink:href="note-0151-01a" xml:space="preserve">561.</note>
            Putrefaction, as we ſee in Oak-Apples, which are found chiefly upon the
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            Leaves of Oaks, and the like upon Willows: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5050" xml:space="preserve">And Countrey people have a
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            kinde of Prediction, that if the Oak-Apple, broken, be full of Worms, it is
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            a ſign of a peſtilent year; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5051" xml:space="preserve">which is a likely thing, becauſe they grow of cor-
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            ruption.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5053" xml:space="preserve">There is alſo upon Sweet, or other Bryer, a fine Tuft, or Bruſh of Moſs
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-02" xlink:href="note-0151-02a" xml:space="preserve">562.</note>
            of divers colours; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5054" xml:space="preserve">which if you cut, you ſhall ever finde full of little white
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            Worms.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5056" xml:space="preserve">ITis certain, that Earth taken out of the Foundations of Vaults and Houſes
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-03" xlink:href="note-0151-03a" xml:space="preserve">563.</note>
            and bottoms of Wells, and then put into Pots, will put forth ſundry kinde
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0151-04" xlink:href="note-0151-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Producing of
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              perfect Plants
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              without Seeds.</note>
            of Herbs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5057" xml:space="preserve">But ſome time is required for the Germination; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5058" xml:space="preserve">for if it be taken
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            but from a Fathom deep, it will put forth the firſt year, if much deeper, not
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            till after a year or two.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5060" xml:space="preserve">The nature of the Plants growing out of the Earth ſo taken up, doth fol-
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            low the nature of the Mould it ſelf, as if the Mould be ſoft and fine, it put-
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            teth forth ſoft Herbs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5061" xml:space="preserve">as Graß, Plantine, and the like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5062" xml:space="preserve">If the Earth be
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            harder and courſer, it putteth forth Herbs more rough, as Thiſtles, Firs,
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            &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5063" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5065" xml:space="preserve">It is common Experience, that where Alleys are cloſe gravelled, the
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            Earth putteth forth the firſt year Knot Graß, and after Spire Graß. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5066" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe
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            is, for that the hard Gravel or Pebble at the firſt laying, will not ſuffer the
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            Graß to come forth upright, but turneth it to finde his way where it can;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5067" xml:space="preserve">but after that the Earth is ſome what looſened at the top, the ordinary Graſs
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            cometh up.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5069" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that Earth being taken out of ſhady and watry Woods,
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            ſome depth, and potted, will put forth Herbs of a fat and juycy ſubſtance;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5070" xml:space="preserve">as Penny-wort, Purſlane, Houſleek, Penny Royal, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5071" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5073" xml:space="preserve">The Water alſo doth ſend forth Plants that have no Roots fixed in the
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            bottom; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5074" xml:space="preserve">butthey are leſs perfect Plants being almoſt but Leaves, and thoſe
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            ſmall ones: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5075" xml:space="preserve">Such is that we call Duck weed, which hath a Leaf no bigger
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            then a Thyme Leaf, but of a freſher Green, and putteth forth a little
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            ſtring into the Water, far from the bottom. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5076" xml:space="preserve">As for the Water-Lilly, it hath
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            a Root in the Ground; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5077" xml:space="preserve">and ſo have a number of other Herbs that grow in
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            Ponds.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5079" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by ſome of the Ancients, and ſome Modern Teſtimony like-
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            wiſe, that there be ſome Plants, that grow upon the top of the Sea; </s>
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            ſuppoſed to grow of ſome concretion of Slime from the Water, where the
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            Sun heateth hot, and where the Sea ſtirreth little. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5081" xml:space="preserve">As for the Alga Matina,
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            (Sea-weed) and Eringium (Sea-Thiſtle) both the Roots; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5082" xml:space="preserve">but have Sea-weed un-
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            der the Water, the Sea Thiſtle but upon the Shore.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5084" xml:space="preserve">The Ancients have noted, that there are ſome Herbs that grow out of
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            Snow, laid up cloſe together, and putrified; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5085" xml:space="preserve">and that they are all bitter, and
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            they name one eſpecially, Flomus, which we call Moth-Mollein. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5086" xml:space="preserve">It is certain,
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            that Worms are found in Snow commonly, like Earth-worms; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5087" xml:space="preserve">and there-
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            fore it is not unlike, that it may like wiſe put forth Plants.</s>
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