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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' & preferrefinal '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.

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