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information. But as farras I have had opportunity to examine it,I have. 
difcovered with my Adicrofcope very curious ftructures and contrivances; 
but defigning much more accurate examinations and trials,both with my, 
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Macrofcope, and otherwife, as foon as the feafon will permit, Lthall noc till; . 
then add any thing of what Ihave already taken notice of; but'asfarras: 
Ihave yet obferv'd,I judge the motion of it to. proceed fromicaufesvéry; 
differing from thofe by which Gut-f{trings,or Lute-{trings,the: beard of a 
wilde Oat, or the beard of the Seeds ot Geranium, Mojcatumr, or Musk 
graf and other of kinds of Cranes-bill,move themfelves. Of which Lhalli 
add more in the fubfequent Obfervations on thofe bodies; {94 yo 4445 
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Obferv. XIX. Of a Plant growing in the blighted or yellow fhecks 
of Damask-rofe-leaves, Bramble-leaves, and fome other kind 
of leaves. dy fis b'isido vbtaluais 
] Have for feveral years together, in the Moneths of June, Fuly, -Angift, 
and September (when any of the green leaves of Rofes begin'to dry and 
grow yellow) obferv’'d many of them, efpecially the leaves of the old: 
thrabs of Damask-Rofes, all befpecked with yellow ftains, and'the under- 
fides juft againft them, to have little yellow hillocks of a gummiotis fub= 
_ftance, and feveral of them to have {mall black {pots in the mid {tof thofe’ 
yellow ones, which, to the naked eye, appear'd no bigger then thé point” 
of a Pin, or the fmalleft black {pot or tittle of Ink one is able t6' make’ 
witha very fharp pointed Pen. ty O NOUSTINIg It 
Examining thefe with a AZicrofcopé, I was able plainly to diftinguith;ap 
and down the furface, feveral fmall yellow knobs, ofa kind’ of yellowith 
ted gummy fubftance, out of which I perceiv'd there fprung multitudes 
of little cafes or black bodies like Seed-cods, and thofe of ‘them thar 
Were quite without the hillock of Gumm, difclos’d: themfelv TOW 
out of it with a {mall Straw-colout’d’ and tranfparent tem,” che which’ 
feed and ftem appear'd very like thofé of common Mofs (which I elfe- 
where defcribe) but that they were abundantly Jef, many hundreds of 
them being not able to equalize one fingle feed Cod of Mots.” “ae — 
have often doubted whether they were thie feed ‘Cods of forme 'little’ 
Plant, or fome kind of finall Buds, or the Eggs of foie very {mall Infect,’ 
'Y 4ppear'd of a dark brownith red, fome alinoft quite black, ‘and of a’ 
Figure much refembling the feed-cod of Mof, but reir {talks ‘on'which 
they grew were of a very fine tranfparent fubftance, almoft like the ftalle 
of mould, but that they feem’d fomewhat more yellow. paper i 
at which makes me to fuppofe thei to be Vegetables, is for that ; 
‘dimany of thofe hillocks bare or deftitute; as if thofe bodieslay 
Yet conceal'd,as G. Inothers of them,they were juft-{pringing out oftheir 
gummy hillocks, which all feem’d to fhoot directly outwards, as at A. ‘In 
Others, asa B, I found them juft gotten out,with very <sgunmniaadain| 
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