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ment on thofe Hsads^ That the Silk was taken 
quite away, and thole that were cover’d with 
Muffin, none of the Grains will grow up to their 
Size, when prevented of receiving the Farina to 
impregnate them, but appear, when the Ears of 
Corn are difclofed, with all the Beds of the Seeds, 
or Grains, in their Ranges, with only a dry Skin 
on. each, about the fame Size as when the little 
tender Ears appear fill’d with milky Juice before 
it puts out its Silk. But the few Grains that were 
grown on the fingle Ear, were as full and as fair as 
any I had feen, the Places of all the reft had only 
dry empty Pellicles, as I have defcribed them; 
and I much queftion whether the fame does not 
hold generally in the whole Courfe of Vegetation, 
though, agreeable to what I firft hinted, it may not 
be fafe to pronounce abfolutely upon it, without a 
great Variety of Experiments on different Subjects. 
But I believe there are few Plants that will afford 
fo fine an Opportunity of obferving on them as 
the Mayze,ox our Indian Corn ; becaufe its Stiles 
may be taken off or left on the Ear, in any Pro- 
portion, and the Grains be afterwards number’d in 
the Manner I have mentioned. 
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