230 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1746. 



on. At last, the ashes of white-ash bark, and vinegar, made into a plaster, and 

 laid to the bite, drew out the poison apace. 



His tongue and lips swelled that night, but were not very painful, occasioned 

 only, he supposes, by sucking the wound. The swelling of his arm being sunk, 

 till it was at least half gone, they then untied it ; but in 1 hours all his right side 

 was turned black, yet swelled but little ; nor was there any pain went along with 

 that change of colour. He bled at the mouth soon after, and so continued 

 spitting blood and was feverish 4 days. 



The pain raged still in the arm, and the fever more violent; and by turns he 

 was delirious for an hour or two. This happened 3 or 4 times ; and Q days being 

 over, the fever abated, and he began to mend ; but his hand and arm were spotted 

 like a snake, and continued so all summer. 



In the autumn his arm swelled, gathered, and burst ; so away went the poison, 

 spots, and all. 



But the most surprising and tormenting were his dreams ; for in all sicknesses 

 before, if he could but sleep and dream he was happy so long ; being ever in 

 some pleasing scenes of heaven, earth, or air : on the contrary, now if he slept, 

 so sure he dreamed of horrid places, on earth only ; and very often rolling among 

 old logs. Sometimes he was a white oak cut in pieces ; and frequently his feet 

 would be growing into 2 hickeries. This cast a sort of damp on his waking 

 thoughts, to find his sleeping hours thus disturbed with the operation of that 

 horrid poison. 



Microscopical Observations on the Farina foecundans of the Hollyhock and the Pas- 



sion-Flower. By R. Badcoch, Esq. Dated Kensington, Nov. 6, 1745. N" 



479, P- 150. 



The first experiment was gathering the bud of a hollyhock so young, that the 

 petala were not yet formed ; and stripping off the calix, nothing appeared, but 

 the apices close to the stylus, for the stamina were not yet perceptible : these 

 apices appeared to be a kind of bag ; and he could plainly perceive a seam run, 

 down the middle of it. He took a fine needle, and carefully opened them ; when 

 he found each full of farina, which seemed to lie very regular. This determined 

 him to take notice of the course of the farina in each flower, and he observed the 

 following particulars : 



August 24, he took notice of a flower just going to blow, and the petala ap- 

 peared ; the farina was then just burst from its apices. The time of these burst- 

 ing is as soon as ever the petala blow out enough to be affected by the sun. 

 Aug. 25, The flower opened more, and the farina appeared so thick on the out- 

 side of the apices, that they seemed quite covered from sight, without a very 



