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to that or t’other place; Or, as that the brused Watch, which I men-
tion in the description of Mois, fliould, when those parts which hindred
its motion were fallen away, begin to move, but after quite another man-
ner then it did before.
Oblerv. XXI. Of Mois, W fever al other fmall vegetative Sub-
siances.
MOls is a Plant, that the witest of Kings thought neither unworthy
his speculation, nor his Pen, and though amongst Plants it be in
bulk one of the Imallest, yet it is not the least considerable: For, as to its
shape, it may compare for the beauty of it with any Plant thatgrows5
and bears a much bigger breadth 5 it has a soot almost like a feedy Pari-
nep,furnilh’d with small sirings and suckers, which are all of them finely
branch’d, like those of the roots of much bigger Vegetables 5 out of this
springs the Hem or body of the Plant, which is somewhat gmadrangulatg
rather then Cylindrical^ most curioully ssuted or strung with Imall creates,-
which run,for the most pavt^parallel the whole stent 5 on the sides of this
are clote and thick set, a multitude of fair,large,well-stiap’d leaves,ibme
of them of a rounder, others of a longer shape, according as they are
younger or older when pluck’d 5 as I ghels by this, that thole Plants that
had the stalks growing from the top of them, had their leaves of a'much
longer shape, all the surface of each side of which, is curioully cover’d
with a multitude of little oblong transparent bodies, in the manner as
you tee it exprels’d in the leaf B, in the XIII. Scheme.
This Plant, when young and springing up, does much reterhble a Houl-
leek,having thick leaves,almost like that, and teems to be somwhat of kin
to it in other particulars, also from the top of the leaves, there shoots out
a small White and transparent hair, Or thorn: This stem, in time,come toi
(hoot out into a long,roundand even stalk, which by cutting transverssy,
when dry, Imanifestly found to be a stiff, hard, and hollow Cane, or
Reed, without any kind of knot, or stop, from its bottom, where the
leaves encompass’d it, to the top, on which there grows a large teed case,
A, cover’d with a thin, and more whitish sskin, B, terminated in a long
thorny top, which at first covers all the Cate, and by degrees, as that
swells, theskin cleaves, and at length falls off, with its thorny top and all
(which is a part of it) and leaves the seed Cate to ripen, and by degrees,
to shatter out its seed at a place underneath this cap, B, which before
the feed is ripe, appears like a ssat barr’d button, without any hole in the
middle ^ but as it ripens, the button grows bigger, and a hole appears in
the middle of it, E, out ofwhich, in all probability, the feed falls: For
as it ripens by a provision of Nature, that end of this Cate turns down-
ward after the same manner as the ears of Wheat add Barley usually do ,
and opening feveral of thefe dry red Cafes, F, I found them to be
Tr quite
to that or t’other place; Or, as that the brused Watch, which I men-
tion in the description of Mois, fliould, when those parts which hindred
its motion were fallen away, begin to move, but after quite another man-
ner then it did before.
Oblerv. XXI. Of Mois, W fever al other fmall vegetative Sub-
siances.
MOls is a Plant, that the witest of Kings thought neither unworthy
his speculation, nor his Pen, and though amongst Plants it be in
bulk one of the Imallest, yet it is not the least considerable: For, as to its
shape, it may compare for the beauty of it with any Plant thatgrows5
and bears a much bigger breadth 5 it has a soot almost like a feedy Pari-
nep,furnilh’d with small sirings and suckers, which are all of them finely
branch’d, like those of the roots of much bigger Vegetables 5 out of this
springs the Hem or body of the Plant, which is somewhat gmadrangulatg
rather then Cylindrical^ most curioully ssuted or strung with Imall creates,-
which run,for the most pavt^parallel the whole stent 5 on the sides of this
are clote and thick set, a multitude of fair,large,well-stiap’d leaves,ibme
of them of a rounder, others of a longer shape, according as they are
younger or older when pluck’d 5 as I ghels by this, that thole Plants that
had the stalks growing from the top of them, had their leaves of a'much
longer shape, all the surface of each side of which, is curioully cover’d
with a multitude of little oblong transparent bodies, in the manner as
you tee it exprels’d in the leaf B, in the XIII. Scheme.
This Plant, when young and springing up, does much reterhble a Houl-
leek,having thick leaves,almost like that, and teems to be somwhat of kin
to it in other particulars, also from the top of the leaves, there shoots out
a small White and transparent hair, Or thorn: This stem, in time,come toi
(hoot out into a long,roundand even stalk, which by cutting transverssy,
when dry, Imanifestly found to be a stiff, hard, and hollow Cane, or
Reed, without any kind of knot, or stop, from its bottom, where the
leaves encompass’d it, to the top, on which there grows a large teed case,
A, cover’d with a thin, and more whitish sskin, B, terminated in a long
thorny top, which at first covers all the Cate, and by degrees, as that
swells, theskin cleaves, and at length falls off, with its thorny top and all
(which is a part of it) and leaves the seed Cate to ripen, and by degrees,
to shatter out its seed at a place underneath this cap, B, which before
the feed is ripe, appears like a ssat barr’d button, without any hole in the
middle ^ but as it ripens, the button grows bigger, and a hole appears in
the middle of it, E, out ofwhich, in all probability, the feed falls: For
as it ripens by a provision of Nature, that end of this Cate turns down-
ward after the same manner as the ears of Wheat add Barley usually do ,
and opening feveral of thefe dry red Cafes, F, I found them to be
Tr quite