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are laid; or laftly, by the Grubs or Maggots 

 hatched of the Eggs laid there, making their way 

 with their Teeth into the Buds, Leaves or Fruit/ 

 or even the Wood itfelf of fuch Plants on v^hich 

 their Eggs were laid. So that at the laft he con-^ 

 eludes : Erunt itaque Gallce & reliqui plant a^ 

 rum tumores morbofce excrefcentic^^ vi depofiti ovi 

 a turhata pluiitarum compage^ & vitiato humo^ 

 rum motu excitatce ^ quibus inclufa ova & ani- 

 malcula velut in utero fove7itur & augentur^ donee 

 manifeftatis firmatijque propriis partibus^ quaji 

 exoriantur nova?n exoptafitia auram. We con- 

 clude therefore that Galls^ and other Tumors of 

 Plants^ are nothing elfe but morbofe Excrefcencies^ 

 raisd up by the Force of the Eggs there laid, di- 

 flurbing the Vegetation and Temper of the Plants^ 

 and perverting the Motion of their Humours and 

 Juices-, wherein the inclosed Eggs and Animal- 

 cules are cherijh'd, nourifh'd, and augmented, till 

 their proper Parts being manifefied, explicated^ 

 and harden d, or firengthend, they are as it were 

 new born, affeBing to come forth into the open 

 Air. In the fame Treatife he defcribes the hol- 

 low Inftrument (Terebra he calls it, and we 

 may Englijh it Piercer) wherewith many Flies 

 are provided, proceeding from the Womb, 

 with which they perforate the Teguments of 

 Leaves, Fruits, or Buds, and through the Hol- 

 low of it injed their Eggs into the Holes, or 

 Wounds which they have made, where in pro- 

 cefs of Time they are hatch'd and nourifh'd. 



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