308 Of Mmldmfi arifwg from PutrefaUhn . 
Thefe kind of vegetable fprouts are to be found on 
federal kinds of rofe-Ifaves, and on the leaves of divers 
forts of briars, and on bramble leaves in fuch clufcers, 
that three or four hundred of them make a confpicuous 
black fpofc or fcab on the backfide of the leaf. 
Of aiouldinefs, or the principals of vegetation 
arifing from putrefadion. 
M R. Leeuwenhoek obierves, that mouldinefs on 
fkin, fiefh, or other things, {hoots up firft with a 
{freight tranfparent ftalk, in which a globular fubftance 
rifes that commonly fettles at the top of the ftalk, and is 
followed by another globule driving out the firft either on 
the fide or at the top, and that again is fucceeded by a 
third, &c. all which form on the ftalk one great knob, 
much thicker than the ftalk itfelf and this large knob 
burfting afunder reprefents a kind of bloffoms with leaves l . 
The blue, white, and feveral kinds of hairy mouldy 
foots that are obfervable on divers kinds of putrefied 
bodies, whether animal or vegetable fubftances, fuch as 
the Ikio, raw ®r dreffed flefh, blood, humours, milk, 
ch-eefe. or rotten fappy wooo, heios, leaves, barks, 
roots, he, are a kind of fmall but varioufly figured mufli- 
lootns; a fpecimen of which is reprefented at fig. 542. 
which is nothing elfe but the microfcopic appearance of 
a fmall white foot of hairy mould found upon the covers 
of a book that was bound in iheep’s fkin. Thefe lpots 
appeared through the microfcope to be a very pretty Craped 
vegetative body, which ihot out multitudes of long and 
ftender cylindrical Calks, not exactly ftreight, but bent 
with the. weight of a round white knob growing upon the 
top, 
* Phil. Tranf. No, 94, 
