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animalcules, which have a vifible fpontaneous 

 motion, fomething fimilar to what has been 

 obferv'd, and is now acknowledg'd to be a 

 {a.d:, with regard to a numerous clafs of marine 

 bodies commonly term'd Corallines. The fame 

 author is alfo inclin'd to fufped the various 

 fpecies of Helvetia and Phallus, which with 

 Linnaiis and other writers we have defcrib'd as 

 vegetables, together with the different kinds of 

 Sphceria, Trichia, and Mucor, confidered as 

 plants by Heller, to be of the fame nature as 

 the Clavaria ; though, as yet, he confefTes he 

 has not difcovered in them any fpontaneous 

 motion. — See a book intitled, Zoclcgia Danic^e 

 jtrodromus. 4.10. Hdvnia. lyGS. au^ore Miiller. 

 We dare not affert Mr. Miiller's opinion to be 

 true or falfe, as we know little of the powers 

 of nature, and have not yet had fufficient op- 

 portunities to examine the fijbjeft with that at- 

 tention it deferves. At prefent v/e can only 

 fay that we have no reafon to induce us to 

 concur with him but his affertion, that we have 

 never yet perceived any fuch motion as he 

 mentions. In any fpecies of Clavaria or other 

 Fungus, though pofllbly fuch m.otion may have 

 been feen by more diligent enquirers-, thac 

 Schceffer has figured the feeds of feveral Claia- ' 

 via as they appeared to him in the microfcope ; 

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