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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77689	Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the garden of Cyrus, or the quincunciall, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne D. of Physick.	Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5154; Thomason E1821_3; ESTC R202039	74,321	222

finde strict rule although not after this order How little is required unto effectual generation and in what diminutives the plastick principle lodgeth is exemplified in seeds wherein the greater mass affords so little comproduction In Beanes the leaf and root sprout from the Germen the main sides split and lye by and in some pull'd up near the time of blooming we have found the pulpous sides intire or little wasted In Acorns the nebb dilating splitteth the two sides which sometimes lye whole when the Oak is sprouted two handfuls In Lupins these pulpy sides do sometimes arise with the stalk in a resemblance of two fat leaves Wheat and Rye will grow up if after they have shot some tender Roots the adhering pulp be taken from them Beanes will prosper though a part be cut away and so much set as sufficeth to contain and keep the German close From this superfluous pulp in unkindely and wet years may arise that multiplicity of little insects which infest the Roots and Sprouts of tender Graines and pulses In the little nebbe or fructifying principle the motion is regular and not transvertible as to make that ever the leaf which nature intendeth the root observable from their conversion until they attain their right position if seeds be set inversedly In vain we expect the production of plants from different parts of the seed from the same corculum or little original proceed both germinations and in the power of this slender particle lye many Roots that though the fame be pull'd away the generative particle will renew them again and proceed to a perfect plant And malt may be observed to grow though the Cummes be fallen from it The seminall nebbe hath a defined and single place and not extended unto both extremes And therefore many too vulgarly conceive that Barley and Oats grow at both ends For they arise from one punctilio or generative nebbe and the Speare sliding under the husk first appeareth nigh the toppe But in Wheat and Rye being bare the sprouts are seen together If Barley unhulled would grow both would appear at once But in this and Oat-meal the nebbe is broken away which makes them the milder food and lesse apt to raise fermentation in Decoctions Men taking notice of what is outwardly vifible conceive a sensible priority in the Root But as they begin from one part so they seem to start and set out upon one fignall of nature In Beans yet soft in Pease while they adhere unto the Cod the rudimentall Leafe and Root are discoverable In the seeds of Rocket and Mustard sprouting in Glasses of water when the one is manifest the other is also peeceptible In muddy waters apt to breed Duckweed and Periwinkles if the first and rudimentall stroaks of Duckweed be observed the Leaves and Root anticipate not each other But in the Date-stone the first sprout is neither root nor leaf distinctly but borh together For the Germination being to passe through the the narrow Navell and hole about the midst of the stone the generative germ is faine to enlengthen it self and shooting out about an inch at that distance divideth into the ascending and descending portion And though it be generally thought that Seeds will root at that end where they adhere to their Originals and observable it is that the nebbe sets most often next the stalk as in Grains Pulses and most small Seeds yet is it hardly made out in many greater plants For in Acornes Almonds Pistachios Wallnuts and accuminated shells the germ puts forth at the remotest part of the pulp And therefore to set Seeds in that posture wherein the Leaf and Roots may shoot right without contortion or forced circumvolution which might render them strongly rooted and straighter were a Criticisme in Agriculture And nature seems to have made some provision hereof in many from their figure that as they fall from the tree they may lye in Positions agreeable to such advantages Beside the open and visible Testicles of plants the seminall pores lie in great part invisible while the Sun findes polypody in stone-wals the little stinging Nettle and nightshade in barren sandy High-wayes Scurvy-grasse in Greeneland and unknown plants in earth brought from remote Countries Beside the known longevity of some Trees what is the most lasting herb or seed seems not easily determinable Mandrakes upon known account have lived near an hundred yeares Seeds found in Wilde-Fowls Gizards have sprouted in the earth The Seeds of Marjorane and Stramonium carelesly kept have grown after seven years Even in Garden-plots long fallow and digged up the seeds of Blattaria and yellow henbane and after twelve years burial have produced themselves again That bodies are first spirits Paracelsus could affirm which in the maturation of Seeds and fruits seems obscurely implied by Aristotle when he delivereth that the spirituous parts are converted into water and the water into earth and attested by observation in the maturative progresse of Seeds wherein at first may be discerned a flatuous distenfion of the husk afterwards a thin liquor which longer time digesteth into a pulp or kernell observable in Almonds and large Nuts And some way answered in the progressionall perfection of animall semination in its spermaticall maturation from crude pubescency unto perfection And even that seeds themselves in their rudimentall discoveries appear in foliaceous surcles or sprouts within their coverings in a diaphonous gellie before deeper incr-ssation is also visibly verified in Cherries Acorns Plums From seminall confiderations either in reference unto one mother or distinction from animall production the holy Scripture describeth the vegetable creation And while it divideth plants but into Herb and Tree though it seemeth to make but an accidental division from magnitude it tacitely containeth the naturall distinction of vegetables observed by Herbarists and comprehending the four kinds For since the most naturall distinction is made from the production of leaf or stalk and plants after the two first seminall leaves do either proceeed to send forth more leaves or a stalk and the folious and stalky emission distinguisheth herbs and trees and stand Authentically differenced but from the accidents of the stalk The Aequivocall production of things under undiscerned principles makes a large part of generation though they seem to hold a wide univocacy in their set and certain Originals while almost every plant breeds its peculiar insect most a Butterfly moth or fly wherein the Oak seems to contain the largest seminality while the Julus Oak apple dill woolly tuft foraminous roundles upon the leaf and grapes under ground make a Fly with some difference The great variety of Flyes lyes in the variety of their originals in the seeds of Caterpillars or Cankers there lyeth not only a Butterfly or Moth but if they be sterill or untimely cast their production is often a Fly which we have also observed from corrupted and mouldred Egges both of Hens and Fishes To omit the generation of Bees out of the bodies

becomes the Tayl of the Butterfly Which is in some way not beyond the contrivance of Art in submersions and Inlays inverting the extremes of the plant and fetching the root from the top and also imitated in handsome columnary work in the inversion of the extremes wherein the Capitel and the Base hold such near correspondency In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions not only in those of Quadrupeds but in the thigh-bone legge foot-bone and claws of Birds The legs of Spiders are made after a sesqui-tertian proportion and the long legs of some locusts double unto some others But the internodial parts of Vegetables or spaces between the joints are contrived with more uncertainty though the joints themselves in many plants maintain a regular number In vegetable composure the unition of prominent parts seems most to answer the Apophyses or processes of Animall bones whereof they are the produced parts or prominent explantations And though in the parts of plants which are not ordained for motion we do not expect correspondent Articulations yet in the setting on of some flowers and seeds in their sockets and the lineal commissure of the pulpe of severall seeds may be observed some shadow of the Harmony some show of the Gomphosis or mortis-articulation As for the Diarthrosis or motive Articulation there is expected little Analogy though long-stalked leaves doe move by long lines and have observable motions yet are they made by outward impulsion like the motion of pendulous bodies while the parts themselves are united by some kinde of symphysis unto the stock But standing vegetables void of motive-Articulations are not without many motions For beside the motion of vegetation upward and of radiation unto all quarters that of contraction dilatation inclination and contortion is discoverable in many plants To omit the rose of Jericho the ear of Rye which moves with change of weather and the Magical spit made of no rare plants which windes before the fire and rosts the bird without turning Even Animals near the Classis of plants seem to have the most restlesse motions The Summer-worm of Ponds and plashes makes a long waving motion the hair-worm seldome lies still He that would behold a very anomalous motion may observe it in the Tortile and tiring stroaks of Gnatworms CHAP. IIII. AS for the delights commodities mysteries with other concernments of this order we are unwilling to fly them over in the short deliveries of Virgil Varro or others and shall therefore enlarge with additionall ampliations By this position they had a just proportion of Earth to supply an equality of nourishment The distance being ordered thick or thin according to the magnitude or vigorous attraction of the plant the goodnesse leannesse or propriety of the foyle and therefore the rule of Solon concerning the territory of Athens not extendible unto all allowing the distance of six foot unto common Trees and nine for the Figge and Olive They had a due diffusion of their roots on all or both sides whereby they maintained some proportion to their height in Trees of large radication For that they strictly make good thei● profundeur or depth unto their height according to common conceit and that expression of Virgil though confirmable from the plane Tree in Pliny and some few examples is not to be expected from the generation of Trees almost in any kinde either of side-spreading or tap-roots Except we measure them by lateral and opposite diffusions nor commonly to be found in minor or hearby plants If we except Sea-holly Liquorish Sea-rush and some others They had a commodious radiation in their growth and a due expansion of their branches for shadow or delight For trees thickly planted do runne up in height and branch with no expansion shooting unequally or short and thinne upon the neighbouring side And therefore Trees are inwardly bare and spring and leaf from the outward and Sunny side of their branches Whereby they also avoided the perill of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or one tree perishing with another as it happeneth oft-times from the sick effluviums or entanglements of the roots falling foul with each other Observable in Elmes set in hedges where if one dieth the neighbouring Tree prospereth not long after In this situation divided into many intervals and open unto six passages they had the advantage of a fair perflation from windes brushing and cle●nsing their surfaces relaxing and closing their pores unto due perspiration For that they afford large effluviums perceptible from odours diffused at great distances is observable from Onyons out of the earth which though dry and kept until the spring as they shoot forth large and many leaves do notably abate of their weight And mint growing in glasses of water until it arriveth unto the weight of an ounce in a shady place will sometimes exhaust a pound of water And as they send forth much so may they receive somewhat in For beside the common way and road of reception by the root there may be a refection and imbibition from without For gentle shows refresh plants though they enter not their roots And the good and bad effluviums of Vegetables promote or debilitate each other So Epithymum and Dodder rootlesse and out of the ground maintain themselves upon Thyme Savory and plants whereon they hang. And Ivy divided from the root we have observed to live some years by the cirrous parts commonly conceived but as tenacles and holdfasts unto it The stalks of mint cropt from the root stripped from the leaves and set in glasses with the root end upward out of the water we have observed to send forth sprouts and leaves without the aid of roots and scordium to grow in like manner the leaves set downward in water To omit severall Sea-plants which grow on single roots from stones although in very many there are side-shoots and fibres beside the fastening root By this open position they were fairly exposed unto the rayes of Moon and Sunne so considerable in the growth of Vegetables For though Poplars Willows and severall Trees be made to grow about the brinks of Acharon and dark habitations of the dead Though some plants are content to grow in obscure Wells wherein also old Elme pumps afford sometimes long bushy sprouts not observable in any above-ground And large fields of Vegetables are able to maintain their verdure at the bottome and shady part of the Sea yet the greatest number are not content without the actual rayes of the Sunne but bend incline and follow them As large lists of solisequious and Sun-following plants And some observe the method of its motion in their owne growth and conversion twining towards the West by the South as Bryony Hops Woodbine and several kindes of Bindeweed which we shall more admire when any can tell us they observe another motion and Twist by the North at the A●●ipodes The same plants rooted against an erect North-wall full of holes will finde a way through