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Juice in a certain Degree of Exaltation, to produce 
in them this new kind of Vegetation, and to form 
their interior Subftance into Filaments, which arc in- 
deed thofe very Eels I obferv’d fome Years ago in 
blighted Wheat. 
This agrees perfc&ly with another Obfervation 
made by the Gentleman who tranflated my little 
EBay into French: Some of this blighted Wheat, 
two Years after I had gather’d it, 1 had given to 
Mr. Trembley , and he to this Gentleman. In a Note 
he has added, he obferves, that thefc Filaments nor 
only recover’d Life and Motion, after they had 
been fo long dry, by macerating them in Water} 
but many broke, and difeharg’d from within them 
Globules, which mov’d with extreme Vivacity. The 
Application of the foregoing Obfervations to this 
Cafe is eafy and natural ; nor is it now any Wonder, 
that thele Filaments, the vegetative Force Bill re- 
ading within them, fhould move and refolve into 
Globules, or that they fhould have fublifted fo long, 
full of that kind of Life they are actuated with, 
though dry and without Nourifhme.it} for now they 
ceale to be Eels, as 1 formerly thought them. 
Blighted Rye, which is alfo lo full of Filaments 
of this Nature, that the Grains are fwell’d in their 
Diameters, and extended to an extraordinary Length 
by this new kind of Vegetation, exhibited nearly the 
fame Phenomena when macerated, and is to be 
clafs’d accordingly. I am told by fome of the Gen- 
tlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences here, that 
in thofe Provinces of France , where this blighted Rye 
abounds, and is made up into Bread} it produces 
very ftrange Effects in the poor Country People who 
feed 
