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body j and in wreathing themfelves thus they clofe 
and embrace the pivot mentioned below. None of 
thefe mamellce have any apparent opening : their 
fubftance is compad, of the fame nature with the 
bladder or egg, that produces them. 
Below the trunk and thighs the plant protrudes a 
pivot, of a like fubftance with that of the bladder. 
This pivot, which is large at its origin, proceeding 
thus from the trunk and thighs, forms fomething like 
the knot of the fea-tree l it defcends perpendicularly 
to the trunk, diminishing as it lengthens, and as it 
grows round ; and then divides into a number of 
mamella , branched and. wreathed inwards fo firmly, 
as not to be retraced ; of a coriaceous nature, black- 
ifh, forming a bunch like what we call the Rofe 
of Jericho. I cannot recoiled: the name of this plant 
or flower. 
This bunch, or wreathed rofe,. inclofes a heap of 
gravel, as if petrified or hardened, and ends upon a 
level with the hole of the egg, exadly as high as the 
laft rank of mamellce y which wreath upon, embrace, 
and fuftain it, leaving always an empty fpace to let 
the fea- water pafs in, which fhould fill the infide of 
the egg or bladder, and even to let in little fifhes and 
fhells. 
I was furprifed to find in one little living mufcles, 
as they always are attached to fome folid body by 
their beards. Now by what means could they enter 
into this egg ? I conjedured, that they had their be- 
ginning there, by the feminal matter of mufcles car- 
ried in by the fea-water. I alfo found fome fmall 
flar-fifh, whofe rays might be about four or five 
lines long. 
If 
