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le 





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plants; 

 of oak. 



L-weed. 

 ia, and 



iroDica 



7 



)wers IS 



:aria, is 

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of fome 



vays 



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jto 



rds coa 



DCS 



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and 



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1 bodies ; 

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here 



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bef 



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ince 



tree 



Sect. XIV. 3. 2. 



OF PLANTS. 



341 



was pierced by a fly, and rendered unprolific before the bloflbn.. had 



1 have alfo feen the hood of the aconite, fo replete with an 



opened 



acrid juice, pierced by infers 



plunder it of its honey 



The curlin- of the leaves of neaarine, and peach, and cherry- 

 trees, with the cells or bladders on their fuvfaces, are formed in con- 

 fequence of the wounds Infliaed by the aphis; in the fame manner 

 as the galls and bedeguars on the oak and fweet-briar by other infeas 



but without their nidification or the depofition of their eggs, though 



from the fudden and general appearance of thefe 

 been afcribed to blights from inclement weath 



juries they have 



"«.A' 



Some obfervers have believed neverthelefs, that thefe afftaed 



previoufly 



of health 



w 



hich 



cafioned them to fupply ; 



I have fre 



proper Ctuation for thofe infeas, which moleft them 

 quently obferved, that fnails or flugs eat thofe leaves, which have 

 been plucked from cucumber plants, and are beginning to wither ; ir 

 preference to thofe, which are growing in perfea health.-. 



Mr. Lawrence relates, that in June the leaves of fome of his wall 

 pear-trees were much injured by a hail-ftorm, which leaves were af 

 terwards blighted, and become full of tumours from infeas • -H ,h. 

 pears, which were then 



w 



periftied 



O 



th 



and adds a 



'Ur. Bradley remarks, that infeas f^^'f^Z^^Hf:^". 



or putrefying parts both of vegetable and an mal tod^ 



conjeaure, that the parent infeas may circulate in the juices of th 

 plant, which however is not probable, as though m.crofcopic animal 

 have been difcovered in the ftagnatingjuicesofanimalbod.es. as 



as in 



A 



... puftules of the itch, and in the f^ces in the dy fentery, and even in 

 the Len, which may have flagnated in the veficulae feminales ; yet 

 me lemen w j deteaed in recent blood, 



no fuch animalculae have, I behcve, ever oeen ucu 



any recent fecretions from 



A predilection for fom 

 mals as well as in infeds 



1 ii • 



hered leaves appears alfo 



cows will eat young thiftles, a few h 



fter they arexut down, as their prickles become flaccid 



and horfes 



r ef u fe. 



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