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it feems, having eaten their way through, taken wings and flowmaway, 
as this following account (which I receiv d in writing fromthe fame per- 
fon, as it was fent him by his Brother) manifefts!’ Iz\a moorifh black 
Peaty mould, with fome fall veins of whitifh yellow Sands, upon vtcafion 
of digging abole two or three foot deep, at the head of a Pond or Pool, to 
fet a Tree in, at that depth, were found, about the end of October 1663. in 
thofe very veins of Sand, thofe Buttons or Nuts, flicking to a Vittle Lo 
ftick 5 thatis, not belonging to any live Tree, and fome of them alfo free by 
themfelves. Pg Sd Siiokh yodtowes ven sidsdolg 
oe or five of which being then open'd, fome were found to contvin 
live Infes come to perfedion, moft like to flying Ants; if not the fame's in 
others, Infecks, yet imperfed, having but the head and wings form d, the reft 
remaining a foft white pulpy fubftance. ¥ ey BhlsG yn 
| -Now.,as this furnifhes us with one odd Hiftory more,very agreeable to 
what I before hinted, fo doubt not, but were men diligent. obfervers, 
they might meet with multitudes of the fame kind, both inthe Earth and 
in the Water, and inthe Air, on Trees, Plants, and other Vegetables, all 
places and things being,as it were.animarum plena. And T have often,with 
wonder and pleafure,inthe Spring and Summer-time, look’d clofe'to,and 
diligently on, common Garden mould, and ina very {mall parcel of it, 
found fuch multitudes and diverfities of little repti/es,fome in hufks,others 
onely creepers, many wing’d, and ready for the Air; divers hufks or ha- 
bitations left behind empty. Now, ifthe Earth of our cold Climate be fo 
fertile of animate bodies, what may we think of the fat Earth of hotter 
Climates? Certainly,the Sun may there, by its activity, caufe as great a 
parcel of Earth to fly on wingsin the Air, as it does of Water in fteams 
and ERO And what fwarms muft we fuppofe to be fent out of thofe 
entifull inundations of water which are poured down by the fluces of 
Xain in fuch vaft quantities ? So that we need not much wonder at thofe - 
innumerable clouds of Locufts with which 4frica, and other hot-coun- 
tries are fo peftred, fince in thofe places are found all the convenient 
caufesof their production, namely, genitors, or Parents, concurrent re- 
cls or matrixes,and a fufficient Sacre of natural heat and moifture. © 
[ was going to annex 2 little draught of the Figure of thofe Nutsfent 
out of Devonfhire, but chancing to examine Mr. Parkinfon's Herbal 
for fomething elfe, and particularly about Galls and Oak-apples, Afound 
among no lefsthen 24. feveral kinds of excrefcencies of the Oak;which I 
doubt not,but upon examination, will be all found tobe the mdtrixes of 
fo many feveral kinds of Infects ; Lhaving obfery' dmany ofthem my felf 
tobe fo,among 24.'feveral kinds, I fay,] found one defcribed and Figurd 
diretly like that which I had by. me,the Scheme is there to be feen;the de- 
{cription, becaufe but fhort, Ihave here adjoin’d Theatr? Botante? trib,16. 
Chap. 2.. There groweth at the roots of old Oaks in the Spring-time; and 
Semetimes alfo iu the very heat of Summer, a peculiar kind of Mufhrom @ 
Excrefcence, call’d Uva Quercina, fivelling out of the Earth, many growing 
ue clefe unto another, of the fafbion of a Grape, and therefare took, 
the uame, the Oak-Grape, aud # of a Purplifh colour em the outfide, 
and 
