Of the Farina Fcecundam 



CHAP. VII. 



The Farina Fcecundans of Vege- 

 tables. 



WHAT I have advahced in 

 the precedent Chapter con- 

 cerning the Analogy between the 

 Milt-Veflels of the Calamary y and 

 the fuppofed Animalcules in Semine 

 Mafculino, will, I believe, appear to 

 be fomething more than a mere Sur- 

 mife, or bare Poffibility* if Mr. 

 Lewenhoeck's Obfervations of the 

 (a) Difruption, or Unfolding of 



(a) " Aliis in locis, ubi fatis multa animalcula flbi 

 r " mutuo adjacebant, multa apparebant animalcula 

 " fphaeram pellucidam repraefentantia, quorum fin- 

 <£ gula quafi cindta jacebant materia quadam or- 

 *' biculari, non aliterquam fi imaginaremur fphaeram 

 *' illam pellucidam animalculo fuiiTe inclufam, 

 " animalculum vero cindlum fuirle materia quadam 

 " aquea vifcofa, eamque materiam iterum cin&anl 

 *' fuhTe membrana. ; & mcmbrana ilia difrupta, turn 

 " demum parriculam fphasricam, materiamque earn 

 " cingentem apparuifie." Lewenhoeck, Ep. 137. 

 • data ad Reg. Soc. Tom. 3. pag. 309. ed. Lat. 

 Lugd. Batav. de animalculis in iemine Afelli ma- 

 joris. 



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