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nities of feeing repeated inftances, having been very afli- 
duous and conftant in my obfervations. 
On the 2 6th of October 1 7 7 5 , an anemony, on which 
I had tried an experiment foreign to the prefent purpofe, 
contracted, and left on the fide of the vale a fmall Hired, 
which at the very firft I fufpeCted to be intended for a 
young anemony : not that it was either flefiiy, or that it 
feemed to contain a bulb ; but becaufe the anemony had 
for feveral days before ffcretched itfelf confiderably, and 
in a particular manner, from that point of the bafe. Cer- 
tain internal fibres or radii appeared, which in the old 
anemony had their direction from the circumference to 
the centre: and as the Aired was an irregular fegment of 
the area of the circle formed by the bafe of the old ane- 
mony, it is evident that thefe fibres or radii, being fome- 
what diftant from each other at the arch of the fegment, 
did 
animaux, et apres avoir attendu longtemps, j’ai eu la fatisfa&ion de voir fe repeter 
cette operation finguliere, et je l’ai fuivie d’auffipres qu’il m’a ete polfible. 
Le 26 Odlobre, 1775, une anemone fur laquelle j’avois tente une experience 
quin’arien de commun avec notre objet prefent, laiffa contre les parois du vale, 
en fe retirant, un petit lambeau que je foup^onnai des le commencement etre 
deftine a devenir une petite anemone ; non qu’il fut epais ou qu’il me-parut contenir 
quelque bulbe, mais parceque l’anemone s’etoit fort alongee par ce point de fa 
bafe, depuis pi ulieurs jours, d’une maniere toute particuliere. On appercevoit dans 
i’interieur certains fibres ou rayons qui dans l’anemone avoient tendu de la dr- 
conference au centre, et comme ce lambeau etoit un feoment irregulier de l’aire 
du cercle que forme la bafe d’une grande anemone, on comprend que ces fibres 
ou rayons, un peu diflans Fun de l’autre a l’arc de ce fegment, ne convergoient 
pas 
