418 Mijcellaneous Obfcreations, 
another the fhorteft Way of their Diameter, 
©r S of them the longeft Way, fill up the Side 
of a Square, 270 of which Squares make an 
Inch in Length.—Taking therefore 9 as the 
Medium, 270 Times 9, or 2430 of thefe 
Seeds will be required to make a Line of an 
Inch in Length; or in other Words, each 
Seed is the 2430th Part of an Inch in Dia¬ 
meter.—And according to thefe Calcula¬ 
tions 44100 of the Spherical Heads, or 
5,904,90b of their Seeds, may lie by one 
another in the Surface of an Inch fqoare. 
Yet minute as the Seeds of this little Fun¬ 
gus are, the Dodtor obferves very juftly, that 
they are bigger than thofe of feme others 
of the fame Genus which exceed it Thou- 
fands of Times in Bulk. For the Seeds of a 
very large edible JMuJJoroom being examined, 
by a Glafs magnifying 320 Times in Diame¬ 
ter, and their Figure being elliptical, 7 of 
their longeft and 8 of their fhorteft Diame¬ 
ters were found equal to the Length of a 
Line known to be the 500th Part of an Inch ,, 
So that the longeft Diameter of each Seed 
was the 3500th, and the fhorteft the 4000th 
Part of one Inch in Length, and 14,000,000 
of fuch Seeds would be required to cover 
a Surface of one Inch fquare L 
* AH the Specks cf Fungi were formerly fuppofed to bear 
no Seeds.: Ray fays of them, nullo nec Semine nec Flore ; but 
good Glades now convince as. of their producing Seeds in 
vaft Abundance, growing commonly between the Gills. 
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