ANTHOPHYSA VEGETANS 289 
And now I also saw that upon the extreme tips of a 
very few of the branches there were three or four, or 
sometimes even five, round globules, set beside one 
another like a rosette; which afforded no unpleasant 
spectacle. For when one such branch was fastened to 
the glass by its thick end alone (from which all the other 
lesser branches sprang), then all the twigs’ were put in 
motion by any little movement which you imparted to 
the water ; whereby also some of the aggregated globules, 
which were set thereabouts, and which you would judge 
not to be stuck fast upon the utmost twigs, were’ like- 
wise put in motion: but I assured myself, after divers 
observations, that they were really fastened thereto, 
though I could make out no structure whereby they were 
joined, owing to its exceeding thinness.” 
I let the water run very slowly out of the glass tube, in 
order that the branches (which were fastened to the glass 
by their stem, and whose twigs were kept in continual 
motion when one handled the tube) might lie against the 
glass, as the water ran off them, so that my draughtsman * 
would thus be able the better to make a pipeure of them. 
[See Plate XXX. ] 
Fig. 1, ABCDEF, shows the structure described, as it 
was lying against the glass. A represents the part that 
you would put down as the root of a plant, whereby 
alone ‘twas fastened to the glass. We see here what a 
lot of twigs there are on it, which now look rather 
disorderly ravelled together, though lying free in the 
water they were not unpleasant to behold: especially 
because their colour was like that of oaken wood, and in 
many places they were encrusted with little round 
1 alle de sprankjens MS. Chamberlayne says “all the five small 
Twigs’; but this is not in the original, and does not make sense. 
2 IT supply waren, which is missing in the original—apparently owing to 
the presence of the same word in the clause immediately preceding. 
* This sentence is much condensed in Chamberlayne’s translation. 
* Cf. p. 342 infra. 
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