132 The | BO O K tof) NYAS TOULR’E; = or, 
fun’s meridian rays: fo that this my little effay 
can pretend to no merit, on any other account, 
but that of its conformity to Nature, which I 
hope I fhall, in time, be allowed not to have 
mifreprefented. And that time will be, when 
happier geniufes {hall have made all thefe 
things clear and evident; for this may certain- 
ly be attained by laying afide all little thoughts 
of our own glory, in inveftigating the works 
of Nature, and thinking of His only, without 
whofe afliftance we could not even know any 
thing of them. At that happy period, the 
defire of writing for the fake of being talked 
of, will no longer prevail: we fhall not then 
be anticipating our. own praifes, fince all our 
intentions being directed to the honour of the 
Creator, we fhall of courfe refift the corrupt 
motions of our hearts, apt to be delighted with 
flattery, and fond of obtaining the title of 
learned and ingenicdus men: all which I only 
confider as vanity of vanities, fince truth is the 
only thing upon which we ought to depend, as 
on a firm foundation, and for which we ought 
to value ourfelves. Whois it amongit us, that 
fhall difcover the truth, confidering our ,blind- 
nefs in judging even of the vifible objects that 
furround us? Hence therefore, to conclude 
this effay, I fhall obferve, that every true and 
valuable difcovery is the gift of the Divine 
Grace, which God diftributes as he pleafes, 
and makes manifeft at his own time. 
fervations, concerning the nerves, may be found 
in my hiftory of the Rhinoceros Beetle. 
The End of the Natural Hiftory of Frogs. 
a comparifan of the changes in the Clove-Sulyflower, with thofe in infects during 
: their Nymph-frate. | nets ab 
siti LA By SLVL. 
I Exhibit in the figure of this Table, 
N°. I. The garden Caryophyllus, or Clove- 
Julyflower, under its firft coat or tunick, with- 
in which it goes by the name of the feed of 
the plant. X so ioe By 
Il. The faid coat or tunick fallen off from 
the latent rudiments., fag ade 
Ill. The little new germen, or firft fhoot of 
the plant. beige! ‘Ayts 
‘IV. The faid germen opened -into a few 
leaves. 
V. The fame germen or bud, when its fol- 
liculus or flower-cup is called a gemma, or 
‘buds; in which condition I confider it as a 
Nymph. 
VI. The Caryophyllus or Clove-Julyflower 
-itfelf, after it has burft open its gemma or bud, 
and is become ready to fhew its ieeds. 
Having fhewn in general, in the firft part 
‘of this work, the fimilitude there is between 
the changes of vegetables and thofe of infects, 
T fhall now, to make it. the plainer, give a par- 
ticular inftance of it in the Caryophyllus or 
Clove; adding figures, to make every thing 
the more intelligible *. 
Tab welsVaeg bie, tty, Wick, then) spive..a 
figure of this plant’s feed, as it appears to the 
naked eye; and then, at the letter A, I repre- 
fent it as it appears through the microfcope. 
‘Near the middle of it there appears a white 
protuberance ; by which, while it remains in 
its cell, it receives life, nourifhment, and in- 
creafe, in the fame manner with the eges of 
infeGts in the ovary; fo that we may confider 
this firft principle, which is likewife found in 
other feeds, as the cicatrix of the navel-ftring, 
after it has been cut and tied up. ‘There ap- 
pear alfo, on the furface of the feed of the Clove- 
Julyflower, fome very pretty little jagged un- 
evennefles, interfperfed with black {pots; by 
means of which it looks. not unlike that 
rugged {kin called chagreen, and may indeed 
be very aptly compared to that kind of fkin. 
Fig. 11. Secandly, I exhibit the coat, fkin, 
fhell, peel, rind, or tunick, which the Clove- 
feed throws off, in order to appear under the 
fhape of a germen, or firft fhoot, 11, juft as 
infects caft their fkins at the time of their 
changes. 
After having reprefented the external ap- 
pearance of the Clove- Julyflower-feed, N°. I. 
and A, I give the form of the fkin it has caft 
off under N°, II. At the letter B, I give the 
true appearance of the feed contained within 
that {kin or coat, drawn after nature; and at 
the letter C, as it appeared through the micro- 
{cope, that my readers may be able to form 
jufter notions of it. There are two things in this 
feed which deferve particular regard ; namely, 
its prominent apiculus, or point, and that bivalve 
divifion or parting which is to be feen in the 
reft of its body. On the feed’s being com- 
mitted to the earth, we obferve that the point 
or cone bends downwards, and divides into 
roots at its extremity, N°. I]. whilf the reft 
of the body of the feed, opening more and 
more, at lait throws off its external coat, N°. 
II. and conftitutes the two firft leaves of the 
future plant. : 
* In the courfe of vegetable nature, if the fyflem of vegetable generation, juft publifhed by Dr. Hill, be found to anfwer equally 
in all other plants as in the inftance there propoted, the origin of this part of Wature’s prod 
ucts is very fimple. There remains no- 
thing of that incomprehenfible doftrine of invigorating atoms, or a feminal air; but the whole operation is a continued growth. 
The fibres of the root are compofed of five fubftances, laid over one another, and thefe terminate in the feveral parts belonging to 
the fower.. The flefhy fubftance of the ftallx terminates in the anthere, and each termination of it is in a minute plant, which is 
Ac, 7 4 {© 
lodged in a grain of 
farina, and defended by a watry fubftance: it is with this carried down the ftyle into the feed-veffels, and 
lodged in the feeds. Thefe cover it with new membranes; and when put into the ground, it calts of thefe membranes, and 
acqu’.3s its growth, ju as this author obferves of the Clove; confirming all his obfervations, 
ay 
My ob- | 
