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Cynips quercus gemmae. 
It depofits its eggs in the oak buds, which pro¬ 
duces one of the fined: galls, leafed like a rofe-bud 
beginning to blow. When the gall is fmall, that great 
quantity of leaves is compreffed, and they are fet one 
upon another, like the tiles of a roof. In the centre 
of the gall there is a kind of ligneous kernel, in the 
middle of which is a cavity ; and in that is found the 
little larva, who feeds there, takes its growth, under¬ 
goes its metamorphofis, and breaks through the inclo- 
fure of that kind of cod, in order to get out. The 
whole gall is often near an inch in diameter, fome- 
times more when dried and difplayed ; and it holds 
to the branch by a pedicle* 
O ur oaks give food and lodging to a multitude of 
infers. Not lefs than fifty creatures of this tribe live 
rn and on iu- 
The round balls we fee upon the oak leaves in 
June, on our woods, as big as nutmegs, green,, with a 
blufh of red,, and foft to the touch, are the fame 
kind of leaf galls with which the Norway ink, which 
excels that of the whole world in colour, clearnefs, 
and permanency, is made : and we have nearly the 
fame infeci that produced them , it has been caught 
in Bufhy Park* 
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