Experiments in consort touching the rudiments of plants ; and of the excrescences of plants , or superplants
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Experiments in consort touching the rudiments of plants ; and of the excrescences of plants , or superplants
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And they surely speak probably who make it an arboreous excrescence, or rather superplant, bred of a viscous and superfluous sap which the tree it self cannot assimilate.
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The Ancients made it a Superplant, peculiar to the Oak, and tell us, that altho' it seemingly produced Seed, they did not believe that that Seed could possibly be made to vegetate, because I suppose they had try'd it in the Earth without Success.
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Doddered, as an epithet to trees, has probably been used metonymically, being intended for a tree covered with any of the smaller kinds of superplants, such as Liverworts, & c. &c.
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