A Short Explanation of th TABLES. 
g Some fine filaments, in which the faid mi- 
nute parts terminate on their fore ends, 
and by means of which they are there con- 
_ neéted together. 
& The manner in which a white fubftance, that 
curls itfelf in aferpentine form, iffues from 
the faid minute parts. 
F.EG. Vi: 
Zi The manner in which thefe white mi- 
nute parts appear thro’ the tefticle, and wind 
themfelves in a ferpentine manner, while as 
yet enclofed in it. 
Bel Ge Vil: 
A microfcopical view of one of thefe minute parts: 
a Its hinder part, loofe and tranfparent. 
6 A white fubftance enclofed in the faid 
part, and which is forced out of it by the 
water that penetrates it. 
c Places where it is tranfparent at each 
end. 
d Beautiful windings of the fame on its fore 
extremity. 
ee Its fine, delicate, or flender filament, 
which hardens in the open air like the Silk- 
Worm’s thread. 
Bare G. VIE 
Two pair of glandular bodies, belonging to the 
feminal veffels, of their natural Size. 
aa The firft pair of thefe white bodies, cut off 
from the gills. 
66 The fecond pair of gladular bodies of a 
gray colour, in other refpects like the firft 
pair, with which they are connected by 
means of two glandular tubes. 
cc A glandular body fituated between the two 
pair juft defcribed. 
dd Some tender membranes, which bind to- 
gether the faid body and its lobules. 
Pale Ge 1S 
A third particle belonging to the feminal veffels, 
of its natural fize. 
a Its figure on the upper part, where it is 
pretty flat. 
4 Its figure on the lower part, where it is 
fomewhat fharp, with a divifion in the mid- 
dle, that gives it in fome meafure the re- 
femblance of a heart. 
xiii 
EEE Gx 
The genitals of the female of their natural fizes 
@ The ftraight gut. 
6 'The du& of the organ ferving to prefs out 
the ink. iid 
¢ The ink-bag itfelf, 
dd The ovary. 
é The duct by which the eggs are difcharged. 
f Three eges. gg Two glandular bodies. 
6 A peculiar part containing a reddifh humour, 
z¢ The gills in their natural fituation. 
TAB. LIL 
The feeds of the Ferni 
El Gaal: 
Part of a Fern leaf, with its tubercles. 
aa An indented or jagged leaf of the Male 
Fern of Dodoneus, refembling the feather 
of a bird. 
66 Tubercles of a Fern leaf compofed of fome 
leaves, and a great many little pods which 
contain the real feed of the plant. 
FG. oi 
Five of the fame kind of pods of their natural 
fixe, and viewed different ways. 
ccc Three pods with fingle ftalks. 
d One with a double Staik. 
eee The place where the ftalk furrounds of 
girds the pod, as it were like a twifted cord 
in form of a crown. 
Jf The manner in which the pod fwells beyond 
the faid twifted cord on each fide of it. 
& Apod placed in the center of the furround- 
ing cord; as likewife the place where the 
pod firft begins to open. 
hb The cord reduced to a ftraight line by 
fome elaftic power. 
27222 The pod burft in two, fo that the parts 
now confidered in themfelves form as it were 
four hollow cups. 
J ‘The membrane of the pod broke open, and 
turned back upon the coronal cord of the 
ftalk that furrounded the pod, fo as to af- 
ford a view of the enclofed feeds in their 
natural fituation. But it is by great chance 
that a pod opened in this regular manner can 
be met with. 
FIG. I. 
The feed. 
& Five out of forty-one feeds, that I found in 
one pod, magnified to a very great degree. 
The E ND of the Explanation of the TABLES. 
