Of Jnmalcula in Fluids, 
Of infuiions of ftraw and the ears of wheat. 
I N the beginning of March, fome wheaten ftraw, and 
two ears of wheat were put into cold water, the 
fecond whereof produced animalcules of the fhape of 
fig. 269. 
Others alfo were found therein, reprefented at fig. 271. 
its mouth is feen at A, the infide of its body was filled 
with a quantity of little white and brown tranfparent 
corpufcles. 
A third fort is reprefented at fig. 272. turning accord- 
ing to the order of the letters ABC, and moving flowly, 
its colour like that of unpolifhed filver, ftrewed with 
little brown fpots. Its head is feen at A, tail at B, and 
back at C. 
Another fort of animalcule is feen therein of an oval 
form, and one called a golden bottle, reprefented at fig. 
276. its mouth is fometimes fixed to a round body, to 
which it ftrongly adheres, as at fig. 273. 
Another fort called foies, contracting and ftretching 
themfelves out as they fwim along, which is very quick, 
are reprefented at fig. 274. 
See alfo another fort, at fig. 275. their mouth is at A, 
which is fometimes extended to a great width. B C is 
the tail. 
Fig. 277, reprefents an animalcule with a fwan-like 
neck. A is its head, B its tail, and C its body. They 
are of two forts, one very tranfparent, and the infide of 
the body of the other brownilh. Their intelfines may 
be feen in motion. 
The animalcules S and T, fig. 278. are thofe which 
Were before called water-fpiders, or rather greedy guts, 
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