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ill the plant, but nothing elfc rcinarka1)le, except an innnenle number 

 of fniall velTcls or veins, dirperled throughout the beginning root. 



All thel'e feed pods or leaves, chiefly in that part through which 

 they had received their growth mvd increafe, were covered with ex- 

 ceeding minute globules, glittering with a beautiful yellow, like gold. 

 As far as my eye w^as able to judge, thcle globules were in diameter 

 about equal to the thicknefs of an hair of one's beard, but fome of 

 them not fo large. I do not confider them to be the fruit of the 

 Hop, but, fome matter or fubflance, ifliiing from the plant, fuch, ■ 

 for example, as if it was turgid with a fuperabundant quantity of 

 juices, or, that the lieat of the fun might fome days be remarkably in- 

 tenfe, and that by the very great quantity of juices, or their extraor- 

 dinary expanfion, they had burft: through the vefl'els. Many of them 

 I broke, and I did not think that they were covered with any fliell or 

 coat, farther than that their external furface being hardened in dry- 

 ing, exhibited fomcthing of that appearance. They contained only 

 a limpid oil, of a glittering yellow, and alfo other globules, much 

 1 mailer, but more folid, and which with the oil, filled up the cavity 

 of thofe firfl: mentioned globules. 



This appearance of globules, on the furface of the leaves, I think 

 very fimilar to what I obferved fome years ago, at a houfe where I 

 was upon a vifit ; the back part of which houfe, v/as covered with a 

 vine, facing the fouthcrn fun. The young flioots of this vine, I ob- 

 ferved to be, in many places, covered with tranfparent globules, and 

 I judged them to have arifen from the fuperabundant juices, which, 

 by the heat of the fun, had been brought forth in fuch plenty, that 

 there was not a paffage for them through the narrow \efrels of the 

 branches, fo that they might be abforbed by the grapes. And the 

 warmth on this vine feemed to me, to be farther augmented from 

 this circum (lance, that the ground which covered the root, was very 

 i'uriouny paved witli fmall ditierent-coloured pebbles, without an 



