MicroGRAPHIA: 
other microfcopical feeds of Vegetables: For firft, though they grow s a 
€afe or Hive oftentimes bigger then one of thefe Pictures et the micro- 
eopical appearance, yet are they for the moft part fo very little, that they 
exceed not the bulk ef a fmall Nitt,being notabove % part of an Inch in 
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Diameter, whereas the Diameter of the Hive of them oftentimes exceeds , 
twolnches,{o that itis capable of containing neer two hundred thoufind; | 
and foin all likelihood does contain avaft quantity, though perhaps not 
thatnumber. Next, for their prettinefs, they. may be compar'd toany 
microscopical {eed 1 have yet feen; for they are ofa dark brownith red. 
colour, curioufly Honey-comb’d all over vith: a very pretty variety of 
Netswork, or a {mall kind of imbofment of very orderly sais‘d ridges, 
the fiirface of them looking not unlike the infide ofa Beew'sftomack. ‘But 
that which makes it moft confiderable of all, is, the medicinal virtues of 
_.. itjwhicharefuch as are not afforded us by any Mineral preparation ; and 
- that is'for the procuring of fleep, a thing as ——s the well-being 
of acreature as iis meat, and that which refrefhes both the: vobune: 
‘and rational faculties; which, whil'ft this affection has feis'd the body,ar 
forthe moft part unmov'd, and at reft. And, methinks, Nature does 
feem to hint fome very notable virtue or excellency in this Plant from the 
_ curiofity it has beftow'd upon it. Firft, in its flower, it is of the higheft 
fcarlet-Dye, which is indeed the prime and chiefeft coleur, and has been 
in all Ages of the world moft highly efteem’d: Next, it hasas much cu- 
riofity fhew'd alfo in the hufk or caié'of the feed, as any one‘Plant Thave 
yet met withall ; and thirdly, the very feeds themfelves, the Aferofeope, 
difcovers to be very curio ii 
_ Tt were-very worthy fome able man’s enquiry whether the intention of 
if fuch there are (as an | 
caufe to believe) we might then, infteed of ftudy 
little is deliver'd of the virtues © 
courfe to the Book of Nature it 
ufefull, and moft effectual and. fpe 
amongft Vegetables, two very 0 
the one of the Fefuite powder for the cure of 
nh rot Ou 8 fb 2- —_ eg "ye d ation, tafte, fmell; ¢ ‘ - 
time of eee ipringing and fading, ne Aeon Sch oF 
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ifick: Medigines, of whi we bay 
fick Medie} incbarage ta hope? 
ea he Feaversjand the 
other of the juice of Poppy for the curing the defett of fleeping: . 
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