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feminal principle from which this minute Plant on Rofe leavesdid {pring} 
were, before the corruption caus d by the Mill-dew, a component part 
ofthe leaf on which it grew, and did ferve as.a coagent in the produ@i 
énand conftitution of it, yet might it befo confummate,as to prodace a’ 
feed which might have a power of propagating the fame {pecies:the works 
of the Creator feeming of fuch an excellency,that though they are anable 
__ tolielp to the perfecting of the more compounded exiftence of the grehtet 
_* Plant or Animal,they may have notwithftanding an ability of acting fing ly 
ypon their own internal principle, {0 as to produce a Vegetable body, 
though of-a lefs compounded nature, and to proveed fo farr in the me- 
thod of other Vegetables, as to bear flowers and feeds, which nay be ca- 
pabale of propagating the like. So that the little cafes which appear ta 
grow on the top of the flender f{talks, may, for ought I know, though f. 
fhould fuppofe them to {pring from the perverting of the ufual courfe of 
the parent Vegetable, contain a feed, which, being featter’d on‘ other 
leaves of the fame Plant, may producea Plant of much the fame kind, 
- Nor are Damafk-Rofe leaves: the onely leaves that produte thefé 
kinds of Vegetable {proutings; for I have obferv’d ther alfo in feveral 
other kinds of Rofe leaves, and on the leaves of feveral forts of Briers; 
and on Bramble leaves they are oftentimes to be found in very great. 
élufters ; {o that I have found in one clufter,three, four, or five hundred of 
fhem, making a very con{picuous black {pot or feab on the back fide of 
the leaf. HU SEULOEG JO D994 
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pais wee 
Ober. XX. Of blue Mould, aid of the firft Principles of Ve- 
-getation arifing from Putrefaction. we. aod L 
) L. Blue and White and feveral kinds of hairy mouldy fpots, which 
are obfervable upon divers kinds of patrify’. bodies, whether Ani 
mal fubftances,or Vegetable,fuch as the tkin, raw of drefs'd, fleth,bloud, 
humours, thilk, green Cheefe,@e. or rotten fappy Wood, or Herbs, 
Leaves, Barks, Roots, ee. of Plants, ate all of them nothing elfe but fea 
veral kinds of {mall and varioufly figui’d Mufhroms, which, from conve+ 
nient materials in thofe pxtrifying bodies, are, by the concutrent heat of 
the Airy excited to acertain kind’ of vegetation, which will not be un 
Worthy our ‘more ferious fpeculation ‘and exathination, as I fhall by and 
___ by thew. But, firft,1 mutt premife'a thort defcription of this specimen, 
__ which Ihave added of this Tribe, in the firft Figute ofthe X IT. Scheme, 
_ Which is nothing elf but the appearance of a {mall white {pot of hairy 
_ mould, multitudes of which found tobefpeck & whiten over the red co~ 
Vers ofa final bookwhich, it feems, were of Sheeps-fkin, that being ttiore 
Spt to gather mould, even in 4 dry and clean room, then other’ leathers. 
___ Thefe tpotsappear'd through a good Aférafeope,to bea very pretty thap'd 
Vegetative body, which, from alttioft' the fame part of the Leather, thot 
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