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the [ 'said' deleted] Dung a <Beane (or other Seed)>[replacing 'Faba Ægiptiaca', Boyle hand] to which apply a moderate heat, & then observe the Event.

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An Ingenious Person of my Acquaintance assurd me that he & a Friend of his did by meanes of a certaine Imbibition & other helps obteine from one graine of [space of 5 characters] 4 stalkes, & some of them had Ears.

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To alcalizate Bâcalis, & melt Talc. (in Boyle hand)

Remember the <Bâcalis>[replacing 'soure liquor', Boyle hand] imbued by Copper & Lapis Calaminaris, remember also the Result of one part of Talk two parts of <Adarum>[replacing 'its proper Menstruum', Boyle hand] & a proportion of salt petre to facilitate their intimate Union: < for hereby the Talk may be brought to fusion & made dissoluble in {aqua fortis}>[insertion in line in Boyle hand]

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(Onobrichys is that which in France they call <La> Lucerne & grows well in poore & sandy grounds, wherein it shoots its root very deepe, but it ought to be renewd within 10 or 12 year, because the stalkes <doe at last> grow too stiffe & woody for the Cattle to feed [on] with appetite, But what the french call Cinfoine['C' altered from 'c'] & preferre[final 'e' altered from 'd'] before the Lalucerne is the Trifolium calld in Latin fænum Burgundiacum, which will continue 15 or 20 years in the same ground, but requires richer & fatter soyle then the other)

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Remember the sp mundi: as also the history of spittle & the production of a good medicine <for the Stone>[in Boyle hand] out of it.

[Dr Morrison being askd by me what he thought [approximately 12 characters] Plants assignd by Bauhinus in [approximately 7-8 lines, remainder of page]largely illegible due to damage caused by bottom of p. 93 torn off]