176 ANIMALS KILLED iv, 
ftroy the refurgent property, ‘and life returns on 
melting of the ice. 
Thofe who have never feen the eels of blighted 
corn will find them defigned, fig. 3. 4. 5. Pl. 4. 
as they fwim in the fluid before a magnifier not 
very powerful. Seven blighted grains are repre- 
fented of their natural fize and figure, fig. 6. and 
three magnified, fig. 7. 
Plants are beings fo analogous to animals, that 
he may be excufed who has defined them rooted 
animals. In the works of Vallifneri, Buffon, 
Bonnet, and, laftly, of the Abbé Corti, may be 
feen the numerous and various traits of analogy 
between thefe two clafles of organifed beings, 
The fubject of which we treat prefents a new ana- 
logy: for as different animals revive after death, 
fo do many plants fpring again after they have 
perifhed. It would be departing from my plan 
was I to fay as much of them as I have faid of 
animals: and I fhall be content with mentioning 
two, the noffec and tremella. The noftoc, fo 
named by Paracelfus, is a terreftrial plant, whofe 
fudden appearance in places where there was no 
fign of it before was confidered by the ancients 
yather as a prodigy of heaven or earth than 
asa plant. Thus they denominated it Heaven's 
flower and Earth’s flower. t is feen in all fea- 
fons, but particularly in fummer after heavy 
yains. Though it fprings in every foil, it prefers 
meadows 
