of Vegetables. 



The Farina foecundans of the Li- 

 lium jlore refiexo was the iirft, in 

 which I difcovered this Action of 

 the Globules. For upon viewing 

 an Infufion of it in common Water, 

 I thought I perceived fome Alter- 

 ation in thefe minute Bodies, as if 

 the Shell or Cafe had emitted through 

 a fmall Aperture, and fhed a long 

 Train of minute Globules, which 

 appeared but as Points in the Mi- 

 crofcope, involved in a filmy Sub- 

 ftance, as the Eggs of fome aqua- 

 tick Infedrs are, and in Effedl not 

 unlike them. This Particular muft 

 have offered itfelf to me long before 

 upon feveral Occasions, in which I 

 had obferved the Farina of different 

 Flowers infufed in Water ; but, it 

 feems, I had overlooked it, till this 

 Time, perfuaded as I imagine others 

 may have been before me, that this 

 filmy Subftance was fome extraneous 

 Matter, which Chance had placed 

 upon my ObjeCr-Glafs, or conveyed 

 together with the Water. But how- 

 ever that had been, I immediately 

 upon this Occafion applied fome frefht 

 Farina ; and having firfl fitted the 

 Microfcope to a due focal Diftance, 



dropped 



