MicrROGRAPHIA. 
and the Cods of an indifferent cize;but in others,as C, [ found them begin 
to have little fhort ftalks, or ftems; in others, as D, thofe {tems were 
rown bigger, and larger 5 and in others, as at E, F, H, 1, K, L, @e. thofe 
and Cods were grown a great deal bigger, and the ftalks were 
more bulky about the root, and very much taper’d towards the top, as 
at F and L is moft vifible. | 
I did not find that any of them had any feed in them, orthat any of 
them were hollow, but as they grew bigger and bigger, I found thofe 
heads or Cods begin to turn their tops towards their roots, inthe fame 
manner as I had obferv'd that of Mois to do; fo that in all likelihood, 
Nature did intend in that pofture, what fhe does in the like feed-cods of 
reater bulk, that is, that the feed, when ripe, fhould be fhaken out and 
ifperfed at the end of it, as we find in Columbine Cods, and the like. 
.\ The, whole Oval OOOO in the fecond Figure of the 12. Scheme 
eprefents a {mall part of a Rofe leaf, about the bignefs of the little Oval 
inthe hillock, C, marked with the Figure X. in which T have not par- 
ticularly obferv'd all the other forms of the furface of the Rofe-leaf, as 
being little to my prefent purpofe. 
Now, if thefe Cods have a feed in them fo proportion’d to the Cod, as 
thofe of Pinks, and Carnations, and Columbines, and the like, how unima- 
inably fmall muft each of thofe feeds neceflarily be, for the whole 
rah of one of the largeft of thofe Cods was not 25 part of an Inch3 
fome not above j<.5, and therefore certainly, very many thoufand of 
them would be unable to make a bulk that fhould be vifible to the naked 
eye; and if each of thefe contain the Rudiments of a young Plant of the 
fame kind, what muft we fay of the pores and conftituent parts of that > 
The generation of this Plant feems in part,afcribable to a kind of a4/- 
dew or Blight,whereby the parts of the leaves grow {cabby, or putrify'd, 
as it were, fo as that the mo breaks out in little feabs or {pots, whichs 
as I faid before, look like little knobs of a red gummous fubftance. 
From this putrify'd fcabb breaks out this little Vegetable; which may 
be fomewhat like a Mould or Adof;, and may have its equivocal genera- 
tion much after the fame manner as I have fuppofed Asoft or Afouldto 
have, and to be amore fimple and uncompounded kind of vegetation, 
which is fet a moving by the putrifacive and fermentative heat, joynd 
with that of the ambient aerial, when (by the putrifaction and decay of — 
fome other parts of the vegetable, that fora while ftaid its progrefs) itis 
unfetter'd. and left at liberty to move in its former courfe, but by reafon 
of its regulators, moves and atts after quite another manner then it did 
vhen a coagent in the more compounded sachine of the more perfect 
Vegetable, 
And from this very fame Principle, I imagine the AGfleto of Oaks, 
Thorns, Applettees, and other Trees, to bas its a It feldom or 
p obed growing onany of thofe Trees,till they begin to wax decrepid,and 
ecay with age, and are pefter’d with many other infirmities, ex 
Hither alfo may be referr'd thofemultitudes and varieties of Atuforomtss 
fuch as that,call’d Jews-ears,all forts ofgray and green Moles, die. 
