the Alcyonium. 8p 



into fmall clear Tubes, confiding of equal longifh Joints, each 

 containing a foft Subftance in it. 



Fig. Ey is the magnified Part of a fmall Piece of the 

 Roots, reprefented at Fig. e. 



The flat Stem, and broad thin Leaves, are no more than 

 a Continuation of thefe jointed Tubes, riiing Side by Side, 

 and growing on together in fuch a manner, that the Joints 

 become placed alternately by each other, as at Fig. Z); 

 which is Part of a Leaf magnified. The natural Size of 

 which is expreffed at Fig. d. 



The whole Surface of each Leaf, feems to be covered with 

 an exceeding thin whitifh Skin, which receives the Impreffion 

 of the minute, regular, long-fquare Joints. 



The dark curved Lines, that we obferve, at every Tenth 

 of an Inch Difl:ance, at Fig. c, in the natural Appearance 

 of this curious Figure, are full o^ brown Seed-like Particles. 

 Thefe, as they ripen together, or advance to Maturity, burft 

 thofe thin white Membranes ; which fhrink back, and leave 

 thefe femicircular Spaces bare, with thefe round Bodies ready 

 to drop off, as they are reprefented at Fig. D. 



When they are magnified higher, as at Fig. F, they ap- 

 pear like a Grape-ftone inclofed, all but the Bafe, in a vifcid 

 ' tranfparent Subftance. 



N CHAP. 



