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Of the feeds of poppy. 
P Oppy feeds, one of which is reprefented in fig. 460. 
deferve to be taken notice of among the other mi- 
crofcopic feeds of vegetables; both for their fmallnefs, 
multiplicity, and prettinefs, and alfo for their admirable 
foporific quality, although they grow in a very large 
cafe, yet are they fo fmall, as not to exceed the bulk 
of a very fmall nitt, being not above one thirty-fecond 
part of an inch in diameter; whereas the feed cafe often¬ 
times exceeds two inches, and is therefore capable of 
containing near two hundred thoufand of them. They 
are of a brownifh coloured red, curioufly honey-combed 
all over with a pretty variety of net-work, or a fmall 
kind of embofifnent of very orderly raifed ridges. 
Of purflane feed, &c. 
T H E feeds of purflane feems of very notable fhapes, 
and appear through the microfcope like porcelane 
(hells, as at fig. 461. It is coyled round in the manner 
of a fpiral; at the greater end, which reprefents the 
mouth or orifice of the fnell, is a white, (kinny, tranf- 
parent fubftance B, which feems to be the place where 
the flem was joined. Its whole Surface is covered with 
little prominencies, orderly ranged in fpiral rows ; one of 
thefe being cut afunder with a fnarp penknife, difeovered 
the fnell to be of a brownifh red, but fomewhat tranf- 
parent, and manifefted the infi.de to be filled with a 
whitifh green pulp, the bed wherein the feminal principle 
lies inveloped. 
