126 MicroGRAPHIA. 
out multitudes of {mall long cylindrical and tran{parent ftalks,not exad- 
ly ftreight,but a little bended with the weight of a round and white knob 
Se grew on the top of each of them; many of thefe knobs I obferv'd 
to be very. round, and of a fmooth furface, fiich as A A, ce. others 
{mooth likewife,but a little oblong,as B; feveral of thema little broken, 
or cloven with chops at the top, as C; others flitter'd as ‘twere, or flown 
all to pieces, as D D.. The whole fubftance of thefe pretty bodies was 
ofa very tender conftitution, much like the fubftance of the fofter kind 9 
of common white Mufhroms, for by touching them with a Pin, I found 
them to be brufed and torn; they feem’d each of them to have a di- 
ftin& root of their own; for though they grew: neer together ina clutter, 
yct I could perceive each ftem to rife out of a diftiné part or pore of the 
Leather fome of thefe were {mall and fhort, as feeming to have been but 
newly {prung up, of thefe the balls were for the moft part round, others 
were bigger,and taller,as being perhaps of a longer growth,and of thefe, 
for the moft part, the heads were broken, and fome much wafted, asE3 
what thefe heads ‘contain’'d I could not perceive ; whether they were 
knobs and. flowers, or feed cafes, 1 am not able to fay, but they feem‘d 
moft likely to be of the fame nature with thofe that grow on Muthroms, 
which they did,fome of them, not a little refemble. 
Co Both their fmell and tafte, which are active enough to make a fenfible 
impreffion upon thofe organs, are unpleafant and noifome. 
Tcould not find that they would fo quickly be deftroy'd by the actual 
flame of a Candle, as at firft fight of them I conceived they would be,but: 
they remain‘d intire after [ had paft that part of the Leather on which 
they tuck three or four times through the ee of a Candle; fo that, it 
cems they are.not very apt to take fire, no more thenthe common white 
There are a multitude of other thapes, of which ‘thefe aticrofcopical 
Mufhroms are figur'd, which would have been a Jong Work to have de- 
{cribed,and would not have fuited fo well with my defign in this Treatife, 
onely,amongft the reft, I muft not forget to take notice of one that wasa 
little like to, or refembled,a Spunge, confifting of a multitude of little 
Ramifications almoft as that body does, which indeed feemsto bea kind 
of Water-Mufhrom, of a very pretty texture, as L-elfe-where manifeft. 
And a fecond, which I muft not omit, becaufe often mingled; and neer 
adjoining to thefe I have defcrib’d,and this appear'd much like a Thicket 
of buthes, or brambles, very much branch’d,and extended,fome of them, 
toa great length,in proportion to their Diameter,like creeping brambles. 
_The manner of the growth and formation of this kind of Vegetable, is | 
the third head of Enquiry,which, had I time,] fhould followsthe figure 
and method of Generation inthis concrete feeming to me, next after 
the Enquiry into the formation, figuration, or chryftalization of Salts,to 
be the moft fimple, plain, and eafie; and it feems to be a medinm . 
through which he muft neceflarily pais, that would with any likelihood 
invefligate the forma informans of Vegetables : for as I think thathe fhall! — 
find it avery diffcult.tafk, who undertakes to difcover the form of Sa- 
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