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Habit of Body, and a more than ordinary A&ion of 
this fame vegetative Force? And may not theft, and 
many other Phenomena of this kind, be reduc'd to 
the fame Principles? But this I leave to the Confi- 
deration of Phyficians, who are better Judges of 
the Extent of thefe Obfervations and Principles. 
The Subftance emitted from the Globules of the 
Farina fecund an s of all Flowers, by an A&ion I 
obferved fome Years ago, is alfo a Subftance of 
this Nature, filamentous, and in a vegetating S^atc : 
Nothing can rcfcmble it more than the Fibres of 
moll kinds of Mould ; refolving all, as they do in 
Water, into others of a much finer Contexture, when 
the Vegetation, that had been before flopped by the 
nitrous Salts of the Atmofphere, begins by the Aflift- 
ance of the Water to act again : And 1 know, by 
Obfervation, that all kind of Mould is formed by a 
Procefs of the fame Nature as the Growth of thefe 
microfcopical Plants 5 and to be clafs'd confequently 
with them, and reduc'd to the fame Principles. 
I cannot finifh this Article without obferving, 
that nothing can more perfectly than thefe wheaten 
Filaments, reprefent in Miniature Corals, Coralloids, 
and other Sea Plants, which have long been obferv’d 
to be teeming alfo with Life, and have been fuppos'd 
to be the Work of Animals, as it will appear to 
any one, that but infpe&s the Figure I have annex'd, 
and recolletfts my Defcription. Are not therefore 
all thefe in the fame Clafs, and is not their Origin 
ftmilar? See Fig. 2. 
§ 28. But thefe Inftances from common Infu- 
fions, of a vegetative Force redding in every mi- 
crofcopical Point of animal or vegetable Matter, how 
ftrong 
