<jFNERA 

 TION. 



SO C O M M O N F R O G. Class IIL 



fpring.; when the female remains opprefled by 

 the male for a number of days. 



The work of propagation is extremely fingular, 

 it being certain that the frog has not a penis inirans j 

 there appears a flrong analogy in this cafe between 

 a certain clafs of the vegetable kingdom and thofe 

 animals ; for it is well known, that when the 

 female frog depofits its fpawn, the male inftan- 

 taneoufly impregnates it with what we may call 

 a farina fcecundans^ in the fame manner as the 

 male Falm tree conveys frudification to the flow- 

 ers of the female, which would otherwife be bar- 

 ren *. 



As foon as the frogs are rdeafed from their tad- 

 pole (late, they immediately take to land -, and if 

 the weather has been hot, and there fall any re- 

 frefhing iliowers, you may fee the ground for a 

 confiderable fpace perfedly blackened by myriads 

 of thefe animalcules, feeking for fome fecure lurk- 

 ing places. Some philofophers -f* not giving them- 

 felves time to examine into this phenomenon, ima- 

 gined them to have been generated in the clouds, 

 and fiiowered on the earth ; but had they, like our 

 J^erhamX^ but traced them to the next pool, they 

 would have found a better folution of the difficulty. 



As frogs adhere clofely to the backs of their own 

 fpecies, fo we know they will do the fame by fiih ; 

 IValion § mentions a ilrange itory of their deftroy- 



* Shaivs Tra'veh, 224. Haffelquiji Tra'v. Engl, Ed. 416. 

 ■^ Ro-^deletius, 216. Wormii Muf, 327. 

 \?^afsWiJdom Great. 316. ^ Complete Angler, 161, 



