IV? AND REVIVED. ¥7E 
will both ferve as proofs of their hiftory, and are 
analogous to thofe we have given of other refur- 
gent animalcula. 
The external colour of a grain of blighted 
corn, that has been kept fome time, is like foot : 
if broken, the internal fubftance confifts of a dry 
whitifh matter, which, examined with the micro- 
fcope, changes to a maf{s of long eel-fhaped cor- 
pufcula. They are not only exceflively dry, but 
lifelefs, and fo confufed and confounded together, 
that it is extremely difficult to feparate them 
without rupture. 
If the grain has been fome hours infufed in 
water, and the extremity adroitly cut off, without 
injuring the interior, and then prefled. with pin- 
cers, a parcel of minute eels are feen pafling 
through the hole, juft like a bit of pafte drawn 
into a thread. When dropped into water, they 
Ueatter ; and, falling to the bottom, are extended 
as fo many ftraight lines, or a little curved, and 
remain in this pofition until revival. 
Such variety has occurred in the time for 
-revival, computing from the moment of hu- 
-mectation, that I have never feen the fame thing 
twice. The anguille. of fome grains were reani- 
mated in three hours or lefs; and others, in four 
or five. Some required twenty hours or more; 
and fome, complete days. All thofe of the fame 
grain were not reanimated at once ; fometimes 
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