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Some Obfervations on the above-mentioned Plants 
and Seeds By Henry Baker, F. R. & 
I Havc carefuliy examined the Plants and Seeds fent 
me by Doctor Miles , in order to determine their 
real Bignefs ; and, taking the fungous Heads of the 
middle Size (fome being larger and others fmaller), 
I find, according to my Micrometer, that three of 
them take up the Side of a Square, 70 of which 
Squares make an Inch in Length, and confequently, 
that 3 times 70, or 210 of thefe Fungi arc required 
to make a Line whofe Length is one Inch } or, in 
other Words, that the Diameter of thefe fungous Bo- 
dies is, at a Medium, the 210th Part of an Inch. 
The Seeds are oval} and I find, by the fame Mi- 
crometer, that 10 of them laid by one another the 
fhorteft Way of their Diameter, or 8 of them the 
longeft Way, fill up the Side of a Square, 270 of 
which Squares make an Inch in Length. Taking 
therefore 9 at the Medium, 270 times 9, or 2430 
of thefe Seeds will be required to make a Line of 
an Inch in Length 5 or, in other Words, each Seed 
is the 2430th Part of an Inch in Diameter. 
And according to thefe Calculations 44,100 of 
the fungous Heads, or 5,904,900 of the Seeds may 
lie by one another in the Surface of an Inch fquare. 
Yet minute as the Seeds of this little Fungus are. 
Dr. Miles obferves, very juftly, that they are larger 
than the Seeds of fome Mufhrooms, which exceed 
it many Millions of times in Bignefs. As to which, 
I beg Leave to take Notice, that the Proportion, in 
Size of the Fruits or Seeds of Trees or Plants, to 
the 
