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Thefe, after ten or fourteen Days, lay in a State of 
Reft, and foon became covered with an exceeding 
white fine lanuginofe Subftance j in which Condition 
they continued five or eight Days longer, and then 
laid their Eggs, fifty, one hundred or more a-piece - y 
which to the naked Eye appeared but like fomany 
red oblongilh Points, but with*Glaffes looked like 
Ants Eggs, almoft tranfparent, with a diluted Blood* 
red Content. 
Thefe Eggs being again expofed in the Sun about 
Bartholomew-Tide , were hatch’d a Month after, 
when fome Fermiculi were excluded, which in the 
Microfcope appear’d to be Hexapods of a purplilh Hue, 
with two Antenna at their Head, and two greyilh 
Briftles at their Tails, fcarce vifible except upon black 
Taper. 
He fuppofes thefe laft excluded Fermiculi , after 
fome Wanderings, at laft fix themfelves to the Roots, 
and fome of the loweft contiguous Branches of the 
Polygonum , where being deprived of local Motion 
and Senfe, by fome Way or other they imbibe that 
Suc'cus from the Plant, and at laft become the Cocci 
fo called, or Veficles full of that Blood-red Succus 
fo ufeful in Dying, 
to c. nnc ■ 7 dt ;/ t:.;i /fin efij 
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