( 30 
'Anno 1678 ; they were of a grey col^r, and a convex 
figure, like the half of an Hempfeed^ and by the Mi- 
crofcope (hewed fcaley or plated like the Mi/IipeJeSy be- 
ing rub'd and bruifed on a Paper, they gav^c it a curious 
Purple colour, whence he conjeftures riiey are a-kin to 
the Cochinilk Infeft, which Paulus Ammannm in Mam- 
du^ ad Materiam Med. likeos to the Cimices, and (ays, 
that they are found on the ficm Indica. \n the z^d. 
Ohf. He adds feme other Reafons of the continual green- 
nefs of fome Plants, which, though defended with but a 
thin Skin, yet refift the cold of the Winter, by reafon 
of its being of a like texture with tliat of a Man's, 
which the Microfcope difcovers, and fo is capable of af- 
fording the fame defence ; foch are Arunty vulg. Bfafica, 
&c. But fome Plants, though of a loHd texture, can- 
not endure the alterations of the Seafons, from the ve- 
hemence of the South Winds, and want of fufficienc 
'Moifture in themfelves. In the idth. 01/. Several Pro- 
digious Effefts of Sulphureous Exhalations in divers 
Parts of Italy, are related. In the z^th. Ohf. He adds 
fome more thoughts concerning the Sal Ammoniac he 
found on Iron-Scoria thrown up hy ^tna 'm the Year 
1669, to thofe he had formerly publiih'd in Difquijit, 
& Ohferv. Phyficis circa Ccrallium, (Sc. Edit, Amfl.p, 47* 
Anfwering a Queftion propofed by Menzeliiu about the 
BononianStom. Laftly, In ths 1 6th Oif He a/lens 
the grcac Vertue of a Mineral Bezoar found in Sicily , 
conffrrung it with the Ciire of an Epidemick Fever m a 
Virgin of Nineteen Years old, when a!] oiber Alexiphar- 
rmch had proved unfuccefsful, provoking a conf.derable 
Sweat, and throwing off the whole C^r/c/^/^j; and Ihews 
the reafon of this Cure. 
This fngenious Seardier into Nature, not fatisfied 
wttii what he has already prefented the Cufiou?, in a 
Letrcr dated at Pakrnto.^ Decemh. ^th. 1 69 5 . diredl; d to 
-the Secretary of the F^^oyal Society, piomifes in a fliort 
