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next morning of 64, and before night of no at 
the lead. So that in about 24 hours there were 
formed, by repeated divifions of one Angle round 
body, no fewer than no Polypi. 
The clufter I firft fpoke of continued to encreafc 
from the 2d of June at half an hour after 8 at 
night, when it firft began to form [it felf, till the 
13 th, when the ‘Polypi began to detach themfelves 
from it , and there remained no more upon the 
clufter on the 15th. 
The Polypi which are at the extremitys of the 
principal branches are conftantly the largeft, they 
are thofe which divide themfelves the moft fre- 
quently, and one of the 2 Polypi refulting from 
this divifion is generally larger than the other. The 
largeft remains at the end of the principal branch, 
whilft the lefier ferves to form a lateral branch, and 
is it felf the principal of all the Polypi which that 
lateral branch is to bear. 
One can hardly now be without curioflty to 
know, what thofe round bodies really are 5 thofe fort 
of bulbs which contain in themfelves the principle, 
from whence thefe whole clufters we are fpeaking 
of are to be produced. What gives origin to thefe 
bulbous bodies? Are they produced in the clufters 
by divifions and fubdivifions, as the Polypi them- 
feives are, which in other fpecies are themfelves the 
principles of the clufters? In thefe other fpecies, 
every Polypus may become the principle of a clufter 
and of a groupe of Polypi , as foon as it has detached 
it felf from the clufter where it had its origin. 
When one of thefe has once fixed alone any where 
and divided it felf, it no ways differs either in ihape 
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