plainey 'the rudiment of a plante covered with a 
yellowifh waxy matter, • 
When the antlierao burft^ a fine yellow, pul- 
py rubftance iffues from' them, fo fine, that it ap- 
pears üke fmook; and ia the midft of thisiis feen 
a fmall oblong body, a htiiiute rudiment of a fu.« 
ture plant. 
That thele joints of the ring are äntherae, is 
tertain, for I have feparated them entire from the 
ring, and feen their powder burft in that condi- 
tion. Thei are oval and white. The browu colour 
they feem to have in the ring being only fhadow. 
i doubt not but the fructifications of the other 
ferns are of the fawe Kind with thefe, and pro- 
pably in mang they are as diftinct. >' 
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