iat A Short Explanation of the TABLES. 
refembling a little globe or fphere, enclofed 
by another greater globe. 
@ The enclofed globe forming, as it were, the | 
yolk of this egg. a 
64 The enclofing globe, refembling the white : 
of the egg. 
II. The Worm of the Frog divefted in a man- 
ner, of its firft coat. 
¢ The coat removed to the hinder part of the 
Frog’s Worm. 
d@ The Frog’s Worm rolled out from under the 
faid coat. 
eee Its food, like the white of an ego fur- 
rounding it. 
Ill. The Vadpole or Worm of the Frog grown 
bigger, and floating in the middle of its food. 
Ff Ff The food fwimming, or floating in the 
water, like an expanded cloud. 
g The head, breaft, and abdomen, made up 
as it were in one globe or {phere. 
hb The tail. 
IV The fame Tadpole more grown, fhewing 
its fore legs, which encreafe by degrees as 
do likewife the hinder legs, but ftill under 
the fkin. 
iz The fore legs growing out by degrees. 
V. The Nymph of the Frog, or the Tadpole 
fufficiently grown, and in a condition to be- 
‘come a Frog, as all the limbs of the Frog 
have acquired in it their due perfection, {fo 
that to appear in the form of a Frog, it need 
only caft its external fkin. 
kk The fore legs, which by degrees have ac- 
quired their perfection under the fkin. 
71 The hinder legs, which are likewife perfec, 
and project beyond the fkin. ; 
VI. The Frog itfelf, arrived at length at the 
ftate of a perfect animal, after paffing 
through the various forms, of egg, Worm, 
and Nymph. It is not however, like infects, 
immediately fit for generation, but muft wait 
{ome years to attain that degree of perfection. 
mm Two veficles growing near the eyes of this 
Frog, which {hew it to be a male one. 
The figures on the right hand reprefented. 
No. The.garden Clove-July-Flower in its firft 
coat, in which ftate it is called feed. 
‘A. A microfcopical view of the feed itfelf, in 
which may be feen the cicatrix or {car of the 
naval ftring, by which it was faftened to the 
ovary, and received its nourifhment. 
Il. The coat caft off by the faid feed.. 
B. The feed itfelf, that lay enclofed within the 
faid coat, of its natural fize. 
C. The fame feed ftripped of its coat, and 
magnified, fo as to fhew its little points and 
bivalved partition cleft, which divides the 
reft of the body into two parts, 
III. The young germe of the Clove-July-Flower. 
IV. The fame germe unfolded into leaves. 
V. The cafe, or.as it were the gem or bud of 
~ the Clove-July-Flower, which may be con- 
fidered as the real Nymph of the vegetable. 
VI. The Clove-July-Flower itfelf broken from 
its gem or bud, and in a condition to produce, 
feed. 
T AB. XLVI. 
PEGE 
The genitals of the male Frog, viewed with the 
microfcope. 
aa The tetticles, Lbbb The loins. 
c Some of the appendages of the tefticles, 
confifting of oily or fatty bags. 
d A fingle appendage of the fame kind. 
e Others divided into two branches. 
F Blood veffels on the furface of the tefticle. 
g g Globular heads or ends of the feminal tefti- 
culary vefiels 
4 Some tefticulary veffels, confifting of two 
parts. 
zz Divided paraftate, or feminal veffels, by 
means of which the feed is forced from the 
tefticles into the common vafa deferentia. 
k k "The manner in which thefe veffels run un- 
der the membrane that enclofes the kidneys, 
and unite with the vas deferentia. 
L111 Vafa deferentia lying round the loins. 
mm A rough draft of the arteries diftributed 
through the kidneys. 
an ‘Two fingular and ftrange bodies feated at 
the kidneys, under the fkin. 
oo The place where the deferentia form on 
each fide a fingle trunk. 
pp Seminal veffels, or feed bags. 
qq The ftraight gut, into which the vafa de- 
_ ferentia and feminal veficles difcharge them- 
felves. ; ; 
r The orifice, or end of the faid parts. 
ss The urinary bladder divided into two parts. 
PieGe ll 
All the foregoing parts, of their natural fize. 
PoreGh Uh | 
One of the ovaries, of its natural fize. 
aa Divifions, or natural ends of-the ovary. 
4 A brafs tube introduced into one of the little 
lobules of the ovary, in order to blowit up. . 
cc Eggs appearing through the membranes 
compofing the ovary. 
d One of the lobules of the ovary laid open, 
fo as to afford a diftinét view of the enclofed 
eggs, 
FIG. IV. 
The heart, liver, lungs, tubes, uterus, Sc. in 
an impregnated female Frog. 
@ The fkin wijh the fternum and its cartilage 
drawn back over the head, and faftened with 
a needle in that fituation. 
6 The cavity, or hollow of the membranes, 
containing the heart, and formed under the 
breaft 
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