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CHAP. VIIL 



Of Eels in blighted Wheat. 



CMUT in Wheat is a Difeafe, Plate 

 V by which the interior farinaceous F & 6 

 Subftance is deftroyed, and a foreign 

 Matter introduced, which difcolours 

 and blackens the Grain, at leaft on 

 the Out- fide. This Mater is either 

 a black Duft extreamly fine, but 

 affording no Uniformity in the Shape 

 of its feveral Particles, when viewed 

 in the Microfcope; or it is a white 

 Subftance, confirming wholly of longi- 

 tudinal Fibres bundled up together, 

 without the leaft figns of Life or Mo- 

 tion, if expofed upon the Object- 

 Glafs of the Microfoope, juft as they 

 are extracted out of the Grain, with- 

 out applying Water. 



When I firft difcovered them, I 

 had no other Defign in the Appli- 

 cation of Water, than to devellop 

 the Bundle, that I might view the 

 fuppofed Fibres, as they appeared to 

 to me to be, with more Advantage. 

 I was confequently much furprized 

 to fee them, as it were, inftantly 

 G 3 take 



