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the torrent which hurries them into the plume, where 
they are immediately fwallowed, by the mouth which is 
in the midft thereof. 
Of vegetables. 
T HIS feemingly inferior branch of the creation, 
when carefully attended to, by the afliftance of the 
microfcope, exhibits to us an ample fcene of the creator’s 
wifdom, curiofity, and art, in the wonderful contrivance 
even of the moft abjedt vegetables, but more efpecially 
in the anatomy of them; wherein may be feen the ad¬ 
mirable provifion made for the conveyance of the lym¬ 
phatic and effential juices, in communicating the air, as 
neceffary to vegetable as animal life, and more particu¬ 
larly in the generation and make of the feed, wherein 
the lineaments of the parent vegetable are inclofed in 
miniature; and wherein alfo we fee that God Almighty 
has by one a& of his creating power provided for all fuc- 
ceeding ages; and the future pofterity of each feed does 
of neceflity produce its own refemblance : for the pre- 
fervation of which, nature hath endow’d fome with light 
downy wings, to be conveyed about by the winds; others 
are laid up in elaftic fpringing cafes, that upon bund¬ 
ing dart their feed at convenient diftances, and others, 
&c. are planted by the induftry of the hufbandman. 
The feeds of plants are inclofed in different (heaths 
•Of cafes, till they are lodged in the earth. Some are de- 
pofited in the very heart of the fruit, as the kernels of 
apples and pears, others grow in cods or (hells, as peas, 
beans, lentils, poppy feeds, and cocoa nuts; fome in 
wooden (hells, &c. 
The farina of flowers appears to the naked eye a kind 
of mealy powder, which is found on the pendant tops of 
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