I Thofe mthout wings were of a light-yeUow or Jaxen, and 
being broken at on's noftrils they emitted, like others^ an acid 
orfowre fent j but thofe of the fame bank wingSj were 
cole-black, aud thefe^ bruifed and fmelt to^ emitted fo fra- 
grant a fmell like mm^^that I muft confefs they were too ftrong 
for me to endure ; yet having kept them fome time by mCjthe 
more delicate (ex were not difpleafed v/ith thelraelU And 
an Apothecary in this City^ famous for his dih'gence in Chy- 
mical Operations 5 did compare diem (unfeen and not yet 
made known to him) to an excellent baifom 5 he is wont £0 
prepare. 
Mv.Wtllou^hhy inform'd me, that he had found the Cfl^?^- 
chafer or Sweet beetle * out of feafon as to that 
fmell 5 and thereupon asked me, what I had ob- ^/w/; /e# 
lerved as to the time of their fweeteft and ftroog- ^^To'nltn, 
eft fmeiling ? I anfwer'd^ that I believed it to be 7<^ p»^2i8i» 
at the time of the Coit^ for afhauch as at that cime^ 
when I took them highly perfumed^! had obferved the female 
full of Egg, 
The ExtraU of the other Letter : 
I Send you a fecond paper about Vegetable Excrefcencies 5 
the ftiortnefs of the former ^ and fome ^ of which fee 
things therein 5 perhaps liable to Exception , Numb. 75. p. 
obliging me thereto* ^2.54. 
Concerning the fifth and^laft propofition of the /^/? paper, 
it might be more intelh'gibly expreffed thus 5 vi^. That the 
fubftaoce or fibrous part of many Vegetable Excrefcencies 
not to be the food of the worms found in them: My 
meaning is^ that the worms in thofe Vegetable EKCrefceocies^ 
which produce /^^;3ffi!;^2(?;3/ (to which kind of lofcdt we would 
limit this propofitioo^ and therefore expunge all other in- 
ftances,) thefe worms, I fay, do not feem to devour th^ fub- . 
ftance or fibrous part of them, as other worms eat the Ker- 
nels of nuts, &c, but that (what- ever their manner of feed* 
ingis, and we doubt not but that they are nouriflb'c in and 
uponfome part of them;)) the Vegetable Excrefcenc^s ftili 
Eiiightily increafe in bulkj and rife as the worms feed. 
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