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ftincl ; but we are to know that they all come of 

 the Seed of Animalcules of their own Kind, that 

 were before laid there ; for thefe InfecSs do thruft 

 their Seed or Eggs fo deep into the Plants, that 

 they come to be afterwards as it were united 

 wich them, and the Aperture or Orifice by which 

 they entered quite clos'd up and obliterated, the 

 Eggs being hatch'd and nourifh'd within. We 

 have often found the Eggs of Infefts fo deeply 

 funk into the tender Buds of Trees, that without 

 hurting of them it was impoffible to draw them 

 out. Many Inftances he produces in feveral Sorts 

 of Infe(5ts making their way into Plants, which, 

 tho' they be well worth the reading, are too long 

 to tranfcribe. 



Secondly, That great and fagacious Naturalift, 

 and moft accurate Examiner of thefe Things, 

 Signior Malpighi, in his Trcatife of Galhy under 

 which Name he comprehends all preternatural 

 and morbofe Tumours and Excrefcencies of 

 Plants, doth demonftrate in particular, that all 

 fuch Warts, Tumours and Excrefcencies, where 

 any Infers are found, are excited or rais'd up ei- 

 ther by fome venenofe Liquor, which together 

 with their Eggs fuch Infeds fhed upon the Leaves, 

 or Buds, or Fruits of Plants, or boring with their 

 Terebrcey inftil into the very Pulp of fuch Buds or 

 Fruits y or by the contagious Vapour of the very 

 Eggs themfelves, producing a Mortification or 

 Syderation in the Parts of Plaurs on which they 



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