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ee varia Sobolifera. It grows on putrid animal bodies, 
“ as our fungus ex pede equino from the dead horfes 
hoof. 
\\ The Cicada is common in Martinique, and in 
cc it s nympha ftate, in which the old authors call it 
<c Tettigometra, it buries itfelf under dead leaves to 
<c wa h it s change ; and when the feafon is unfavour- 
“ able, many perifh. The feeds of the Clavaria find a 
“ proper bed on this dead infeCt, and grow. 
“ The Tettigometra is among the Cicada? in the 
iC Britifh Mufeum : the Clavaria is juft now known. 
“ This you may be aftured is the fad, and all the 
cc fadt ; though the untaught inhabitants fuppofe a 
“ fly to vegetate i and though there exifts a Spanifti 
drawing of the plant’s growing into a tri-foliate tree; 
<c and it has been figured with the creature flying 
“ with this tree upon its back. 
“ So wild are the imaginations of Man j fo chafte 
and uniform is Nature !” 
Commiflioner Rogers, at Dr. Huxham’s defire, 
has prefented this extraordinary production to the 
Royal Society, and it now lies before you. 
A careful examination of it feems to confirm, to 
me at leaft, Dr. Hill’s opinion of the manner of this 
phasnomenon’s being produced. 
The ingenious Mr. * Edwards has taken notice of 
this extraordinary production, in his Gleanings of Na- 
tural Hijlory , and has given us a figure of it in that 
elegant work. 
There is in the Britifh Mufeum among the Ci- 
cadas one, nearly refembling the animal part of the 
* Vol. III. page 262, plate 335, 
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