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£ire now globules of Farina. To know how they are formed, we muff 
open one of the Antherae in a ftate of half ripenefs, and then of perfect 
maturity. 
When we open in this manner a half-ripe Anthera, we find that be- 
tween the two Membranes of the cylinder there run innumerable little 
clufters of the Flefii VefTels ; that is fo many portions of the Flefli of the 
Plant, diverted of all encumbering matter, and formed of Vefl'els wonder- 
fully reduced in fize. All thefe are regular portions of the Flelh of the 
Plant, which have pafibd thro’ the Receptacle, and have been again re- 
duced in fize at the top of the Filament, but which are yet entire, and 
contain, minute as they are, their proper Juices, and continue to grow. 
In the half-ripe Anthera we find thefe little portions of the Flelh of the 
Plant, every where rtriking inward toward the cavity of the Cylinder j and 
raifing the inner Membrane into Blirters. See Fig. 20. 
In the perfedly ripe Anthera the appearance is the fame, only that the 
Blirters are innumerable, and are larger ; contradled at the neck, and ready 
to fall loofe into the cavity of the Cylinder. This is reprefented at Fig. 21. 
The globules of Farina, which hitherto we have been content to call 
Blirters, are thus perfedled. The fmall portion of the Flelh which has, 
by thrurting out Its point, railed the Blirter, grows a little more ; but the 
force of Nature is fo flight at this dirtance from the Root, that the little 
point of this fmall portion of the Flcfh, tho’ it continues growing, cannot 
pierce the Membrane formed by this Blirter. Not being able to get thro’ 
it turns backward, and by growing a little longer, forms that oval ring be- 
fore defcribed, which is properly the embryo of a new Plant. See Fig. 
21. The waxy Veflels having run up all the way with thefe minute por- 
tions of the Flcfl), terminate by plainly open mouths, where the portion 
of the Flefli forms the Blirter, and dilcharge their contents into that new 
cavity. 
The extreme ends of the Veflels of the portion of Flefli in the globule 
of Farina inofculate with themfelves, at the place where they touch, that 
is, at the bafe of the Blirter j and the Membrane forming the Blirter con- 
tracting there, and the VefTels drying for want of more nourifliment, the 
work of Nature is fo far accomplifhed. 
Thus a piece of the Flefh of the Plant, replete with its proper Juices, 
and furrounded with a waxy fluid, is lodged in a little membranous bag, 
which, as Toon as its neck grows perfectly dry, falls off from the inner 
furface of the Anthera, and is a globule of Fanna. This contains in it a 
portion of the Flefli, which was the effential fubftance of the Plant, and 
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