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ORGANS 



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Sect. VII. 2. i. 



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On the eleventh day after the fall 



f the blofTom th 



feeds became heart Hiaped, with the bafis attached by an append 



this wh 



point 



to the pod, and a white point at the apex ; 



prelTure found to be a cavity including a drop of liquor. 



On the twenty-fifth day the cavity, which at firft appeared at th 

 apex, was nauch enlarged, and flill full of liquoi 

 yery fmall femi-tranfparent body of a yellowifh colour, gelatinous, 

 and fixed by its two oppofite ends to the fides of the cavity 



Ifo contained 



In a month the feed was much 



o 



ed 



d its 



fhape changed 



from a heart to a kidney ; the little body contained in the cavity was 

 increafed in bulk, and was lefs tranfparent, and gelatinous, but there 



yet appeared no organisation. 



On the fortieth day the cavity now grown larger was quite filled 

 with the body, which was covered with a thin membrane; after th 



membrane was removed, the body appeared 



f 



bright 



green. 



d 



fily divided by the point of a needle into two portions, which 



rnanifeftly formed th 



lobes 



nd within thefe attached to th 



low 



part th 



edingly fmall plantule was eafily perceived 



That the feed 



flinth 



a 



That they remain for fome 

 liquid is 



formed 



the 



The foregoing obfervations evince, i 

 ovarium many days before fecundation. : 

 time folid, and then a cavity containing 

 3. That after fecundation a body begins to appear within the cavity 

 fixed by two points to the fides, which in procefs of tim^ proves to 

 be two lobes containing a plantule. 4. That the ripe feed confifls of 

 two lobes adhering to a plantule, and furrounded by a thin membrane, 

 which is itfelf covered with a hulk or cuticle. Spallanzani's DilTerta- 



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tions, Vol. II. p. 253. 



The analogy between feeds and eggs has long been obferved, and 



firmed by the mode of their produd 



The eg 



k 



be formed within the hen long before its impregnation 



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Wolf afferts, that the yolk of the egg is nourifhed by the vefTels of 

 the mother, and that it has from thofe its arterial and venous branches; 



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