men with ten or twenty Rbots that have none the 
abJvememioned Animaicula in thern. 5 for it has happetrd 
tome that I have examind more than five and twenty 
Roots, without meeting with any of thefe Animaicula on 
them 5 asalfo, on the contrary, I have fomecmies fomid 
three of em upon one Wee^ ^ , . - t t. j n. ' 
Moreover, in one of my Tilafles, in whicti i had ihut 
up a Weed with its Root, there was an Aniinalculam oF 
the length of the 'third part of^n Inchf and lometbing 
thicker than the fmali Root of the Dtick- weed, the Body 
of which was for the moft part Traiifparent, only there 
was a Gut or Intefiin that ran thro^ the whole length of 
the Body, and was wrinkled or fririverd in (everal 
places 5 and as it came towards the Head it grew round- 
er and thicker, which I imagiad to be the Maw or 
Stomach. This Gut was full of Meat throughout, which 
the Animalculum had gathered either from the Roots, or 
the excrefcent Particles round about it 5 and forafmuch 
as the upper part of the Head was provided with a long 
and pointed Horny fabftance like a Sturgeon, fo alfo was 
the Mouth inwards, and joyn/J to the end of the Belly. 
• Thefaid Gut being filfd v^ith Meat w^as in a continual 
Motion, which ! call a pinching or twitching, in order to 
the attenuation or protrufion of the Chyle 5 and if the 
Guts had not been full of M^at, whi^h himitD^d the Tranf- 
parency thereofj I (hould have feen all thc joynts of the 
Back bone* 
The third day, after I had fhut up the Animalculum in 
my Glafs, I faw a long and flender little Worm, that I 
judged to be a Thoufand times fmaller than the aforclaid 
Animalculum, which had infinuated, or bor'd Part of it 
felf into the Body of the Animalculum, and, as far as it 
appeared to me, the Worm labour d to get in his whole 
Body 5 and the next day in the morning I difcover'd that 
it was in a manner quite got in, and at night 1 could fee 
nothing of it but a little bit fticking out 5 and then I could 
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