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animalcules, which have a vifible fpontaneous 

 motion, pjmething fimilar to what has been 

 oblerv'd, and is now acknowledg'd to be a 

 fcidi, with regard to a numerous clafs of marir^e 

 bodies commonly term'd Corallines. The lame 

 author is alio inclin'd to fufped the various 

 fpecies of HdveHa and Phallus, which v^i'nh 

 L-lnnaiis and other wriiers we have defcrib'd as 

 vegetables, together with the different kinds of 

 Sphieria, ^richia, and Mucor^ confidered as 

 plants by Haller, to be of the latne nature as 

 the Clavaria \ though, as yet, he confefies he 

 has not dilcovered in them any fpontaneous 

 motion. — See a booic intitled. Zoologies Danica 

 prodrcmus. 410. Hcrcnuc. 1^66. au^ore Miiller. 

 We dare nor afiert Mr. MiiUer''s opinion to be 

 true or faife, as we know little of the powers 

 of natuie, and have not yet had fufficient op- 

 portunities to examine the fubjeft with that at- 

 tention it deferves. At prefent we can only 

 fay that we have no reafon to induce us to 

 concur with him but his affertion, that we have 

 never yet perceived any I'uch m.otion as he 

 mentions, in any fpecies of Clavaria or other 

 Fungus, though poffibly fuch motion may have 

 been feen b/ more diligent enquirers-, that 

 Scha-ffer has 6gured the feeds of feveral Clava- 

 nW as they appeared to him in the microfcope j 

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