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the rows of pores crofling on¢ another, «much: after the manner asthe 
rows of eyesido: which are defcrib'd inthe 26.Scheme z Coraline al{o, and 
feveral forts of white Cora/, EF have witha Ascrofcope oblery d ‘very cu- 
rioufly fhap'd. And I doubt not, but. that)he ‘that fhall obferve thefe 
feveral kinds of Plants that grow upon Rocks, which the Sea fomes . 
times overflows, and thofe heaps of othets which are vomited out of it up: 
on the fhore, may find multitudes of little Plants, and other bodies,which 
like this will afiord very beautifull objects for the AGerofeope 5 and this, 
Specimen here is adjoin d onely to excite their curiofities who have ops 
portunity of obferving to examine ‘and collec what they. find worthy, 
their notice 5 for the Sea, among’ tetreftrial bodies, is alfo a: prolifich, 
mother; and affords as many Inftances of fhontanedus generations as cir 
ther the Air or Earth. fo3 ed is 2951'F , . 
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Oblery.. XX1V.- Ofthe furfaces of Roletnary,, andotber leave, 
aL His which is delineated within the circle ofthe fecond Figure of the 
#14. Scheme, is a {mall part of the back or under fide of a leaf of 
esernay. which I did not sop make choice of, becaufe it had any 
thing peculiar which was not obfervable -with a Asicrofegpe in fe) 
other Biante but becaufe it exhibits'at one view, re" is eure 
Firft, a fmooth and fhining furface, nathely, A By whicliis'a part f the 
upper fide of the leaf, that by akind of heim or seer if the leaf ap: 
pears on this fide. There are multitudes of leaves; 1 furfaces are 
like this fmooth, and asit were quilted, which look like a curious cued 
ange ereen Silk, or like a Bladder, or fome fuch pliable tranfparent 
bftance, full ftuffed out with a green juice or liquor 3_ the furtace of 
Rue, ot Herbgra&, is polith’d, and all dver indented, or pitted, like the 
Silk-worm’s Egg, which I fhall anon deferibe 5 the fmooth furfaces of other 
Plants are otherwife quilted, Nature in this, as it were, exptefiing her 
Needle-work, or wabroiderye> 216 -yel l 2ncOR rico j ) : : 2100 ‘1a 
~ Next a downy or buthy furface, fuch-as is all the ander fide alinoft; 
appearing through the Aéicrofcope much like a thicket of bufhes, and with 
this kind of Down or Hair the leaves.and ftalks of multitudes of Vege+ 
tables are covered; and there feems ta be as great a variety im the thape, 
bulk, and nianner of the growing of thefe fecundary Plants, as may call 
them (they being, asit wete, aPlant growing out of a Plant; or fome~ 
what likethe hairs of Animals) as there is tobe found amongft {mall 
- fhrubs that compofe buthes;, but forthe moft part, they confift of finall 
traniparent parts, fome of which grow in the’ ape of {mall Needlesor 
Bod ins.as on the Thiftle,Cowag-ecod and Nettles others in theform of 
fas in Cli ets, the beardsof Barley, the edges of feyeral forts 
_ Of Grafs andReeds, be; in otherjas Coltsfoot,R.ofe-campion, Aps; Poplar, 
Willow, and-almoft all other downy Plants, they grow in the form of 
buthes very much ydiverfify’d in cach particular Plane  eeagageerchhe 
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