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the young ones make their way out at feveral fmall holes 5 
whereas the true ij>r;w^/'husk feemstobe pierced but in one 
place* 
The Second ; The difcovery of our En^tjh K^rmfs hath ve« 
ry much pleafedforaeof the Curious in thefc part?^ 3 who re- 
folveupon Tryals of it the nextfeafon. 1 thli^k, 1 advert' fed 
you formerly, that that deep purple or violer^ with wl: '^e 
infidesof the husks are liu'dj is much fpentj if the hasAi be t 
ta,ken whileft the Bees are in vermiculo-, and the blackeft husks 
arericheft in colour. Yefterday in very good company we 
compared our Englifli P/:^r/>/^-)^5rw^/ with ihtScarlet-k^rmes or 
Grains of the Shops, and found them in every point to agree 
fave in the colour of their Juices 5 and particularly (fincftng 
in fome parcels of the Shops many yet flicking, to Uttle twigs 
of the Ilex^)wc confidently affirm, that thofe as well as ours are 
only contiguous to the llex-branches;and are not excrefcencies 
of the Tree,much lefs fruit or berries 5 by which abufive names 
they have been too long known 5 But that they are the artifice 
and fole work of the mothenBee in order to the more conve* 
nient hiving and nourilhment of her young. 
jfn ExtraB of a Letter^ written to tb^ Publijher hy the Excellent 
Johannes Hevelius, concerninjf his further Obfervations of the 
New Star near the Beak of the Swan ; t^ be compared rvith wha^ 
wm formerly ■puhlijhedof the fame Argument; in Numb* 65^ and 
Numb* (55. 
This Extradt wefliall give you in the fame Language it was 
written from Dant^.ck^ t\\Q 1^ of May i6yi, ft. n. 
DE rtliquQ mearum etiam partium effe diixi^ Vahis qmm 
tocyus Jignificare^me nuiim^tertim^die videl. 29, April. 
Novam illam Stellam fub capite Cygni, ad Viam LaBeam^ qmm 
Annoproxime prteterito a menfe Junio Cs? Julio,^^ ufque \\,oh.oh^ 
eonfpexeram^denuo ohfervajjh^^ quidem eo ip[o loco^quo tunc temporis 
conpfiebat. Interim maonitudine mihi nunc ali quant 0 major apparet^j 
quippe excedit illam in l{pflro Cygni^nec non earn quce efl in ancone in- 
ferioris al£ Cygni^ fereque illi quce efl in FeHore Cygni (cquatur^ nifi 
quodluminepauJoobtufiori^ rubicundiori modo luceat. ^iuh ver\ 
die primum rurfusilluxerit^ affirmare adeo cerfo non poffum. Nam )i. 
