tfo Natub.ai, Magick , Doo^ z.

sought for. But happily I shall hereafter , if God will, write of these things,for the delight, and speculation , and profit of the more curious fort: whichI have neither time nor leisure now to mention, seeing this work is ruffled up inhaste. But let us fee

plove load-ftoolsmay be generjted.

Dioscorides , and others have written, That the bark of a white Poplar-Tree, andof a black, being cut into small pieces, and sewed in dunged lands or furrows,will at all times of the year bring forth mushromes or toad-stools that are goodto be eaten. And in another place he faith, that they are more particularly gene-rated in those places, where there lies some old rusty iron, or some rotten cloth;but such as grow neer to a Serpents hole, or any noisome Plants, are very hurt-ful. But Tarentinm speaks of this matter more precisely. If, kith he, you cut thestock of a black Poplar peece-mealiato the earth, apdpout upon it some leaventhat hath been steeped in water, there will soon grow up some Poplar toad-stool?.He addeth further If an up-land or hilly field that hath in it much stubble and ma-ny stalks of corn, be set on fire at such time as there is rain brewing in the clouds,then the rain falling, will cause many toad-stools there to spring up of their ownaccord: but if, after the field is thus set on fire, happily the rain which the cloudsbefore threatned doth not fall; then, if you take a thin linnen cloth, and let thewater drop through by little and little like rain, upon some part of the field wherethe fi^e hath been, there will grow up toad stools, but not so good as otherwile theywould be, if they had been nourished with a showre of rain. Next we willshew

Hove S f er age may be generated.

Hyditmu writes, That if any man would have good store of Sperage to grow, hemust take the horns of wilde Rims, and beat them into very small powder, andsow them in eared ground, and water it, and he shall have bis intent. There is onethat reports a more strange matter ; that if you take whole Rams horns-not pownedinto small pieces, but only cut a little, and make a hole in them, and so set them,they will bring forth Sperage. Pliny is of Did)nws opinion, that if the horns bepowned and rigged into the earth, they will yield Sperage; though Diofcortdes thinksit to be impossible. And though 1 have made often trial hereof, but could not findit so to be, yet my friends have told me of their own experience, that the same ten-der feed that is contained within the Rams horn, hath produced, Sperage. Thefame my friends also have,reported

7hat Ivy doth grow out of the Harts horny

and Aristotle writes of an Husband-man that found such an experiment* thoughfor my own part I never tried it. But Theophrafiiu writes* thar there was Ivy foundgrowing in the Harts horn ; whereas it is impossible to think how any, Ivy seed couldgtt in there: and whereas some alledge,that the Hart might have rubbed his hornagainst some Ivy roots, and so some part of the horn being soft and ready to putrifie*.did receive into it some part of the root, and by this means it might there grow £this sapposel carries no shew of probability or credit with it. But if these thingsbe truej as l ean lay or see nothing to the contrary, them surely no man will denybut that divers kinds of plants may be generated of diVers kinds of lbring Creatures,hdrns. In like manner, may plants be generated of the-piitrifsed barksand boughstof old Trees: for so is-

, Polypody, and the herb Hyphe^r generated; *" ■

for both these*and differs Other plants also do grow up in Pirre-tree^and Pine-rrees,and such othenfor in tWy-'Trees, neer co the bark, there-is a certain 'stegmatick ormoist humohr,* that iswofit topurrifie; which, whOn it abounds tho much with-in* breaks forth into the outward shew of the boughsand-thc st,ode ot the Tree;

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