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feminal principle from which this minute Plant on Rofe leaves did ipring.
Were, before the corruption caus’d by the Mill-dew, a component part
of the leaf on which it grew, and did serVe as a coagent in the producti-
on and constitution of it, yet might it be so consummate, as to produce a.
feed which might have a power of propagating the same species:the works
of the Creator feeming of such an excellency ,that though they are unable
to help to the perfecting of the more compounded existence of the greater
Plant or Animal,they may have notwithstanding an ability ofaCting singly
upon their own internal principle, so as to produce a Vegetable body,
though of a iess compounded nature, and to proceed so farr in the me-
thod of other Vegetables, as to bear ssowers and seeds, which may be ca-
pabale of propagating the like. So that the little cafes which appear to
grow on the top of the (lender stalks, may, for ought I know, though I
should suppofe them to spring from the perverting of the usoal courfe of
the parent Vegetable, contain a seed, which, being fcatter’d on other
leaves of the same Plant, may produce a Plant of much the same kind.
Nor are Damask-Rose leaves the onely leaves that produce thefe
kinds of Vegetable sproutings, for I have obferv’d themalsoin feveral
other kinds of Rose leaves, and on the leaves of feveral sorts of Briers,
and on Bramble leaves they are oftentimes to be found in very great
dusfers j so that I have found in one cluster,three,four, or five hundred of
them, making a very conspicuous black spot or fcab on the back side os
the leaf
Observ. X X. Of blue Mould, and os the firsl Principles of Ve-
getation arising srom P utrefadion.
THe Blue and White and several kinds of hairy mouldy spots, which
are obfervable upon divers kinds oiputrify a bodies, whether Ani-
mal substances,or Vegetable,such as the skin,rawor dress’d, sscsfebloud,
humours, milk, green Cheese, &c. or rotten sappy Wood, or Herbs,
Leaves, Barks, Roots, &c. of Plants, are all of them nothing else but se-
veral kinds of small and variously figur’d Mushroms, which, from convex
nient materials inthofe/«tr{$/>£ bodies, are, by the concurrent heat of
the Air, excited to a certain kind of vegetation, which will not be un-
worthy our more ferious speculation and examination, as I shall by and
by (hew. But,first,I must premife a short defcriptioh of this Specimen9
which I have added of this Tribe, in the first Figure of the XII. Scheme^
which is nothing else but the appearance of a small white spot of hairy
mould,multitudes of which I found to bespeck & whiten over the ted co-
vers of a fmall book, which, it feeins, were ofSheeps-skin,that being more
apt to gather mould, even in a dry and clean room, then other leathers.
Thefe spots appear’d,through a goodA/zrrtf/?^e,to be a very pretty (hap’d
Vegetative body, which, from alssiost the same part os the Leather, (hot
out
feminal principle from which this minute Plant on Rofe leaves did ipring.
Were, before the corruption caus’d by the Mill-dew, a component part
of the leaf on which it grew, and did serVe as a coagent in the producti-
on and constitution of it, yet might it be so consummate, as to produce a.
feed which might have a power of propagating the same species:the works
of the Creator feeming of such an excellency ,that though they are unable
to help to the perfecting of the more compounded existence of the greater
Plant or Animal,they may have notwithstanding an ability ofaCting singly
upon their own internal principle, so as to produce a Vegetable body,
though of a iess compounded nature, and to proceed so farr in the me-
thod of other Vegetables, as to bear ssowers and seeds, which may be ca-
pabale of propagating the like. So that the little cafes which appear to
grow on the top of the (lender stalks, may, for ought I know, though I
should suppofe them to spring from the perverting of the usoal courfe of
the parent Vegetable, contain a seed, which, being fcatter’d on other
leaves of the same Plant, may produce a Plant of much the same kind.
Nor are Damask-Rose leaves the onely leaves that produce thefe
kinds of Vegetable sproutings, for I have obferv’d themalsoin feveral
other kinds of Rose leaves, and on the leaves of feveral sorts of Briers,
and on Bramble leaves they are oftentimes to be found in very great
dusfers j so that I have found in one cluster,three,four, or five hundred of
them, making a very conspicuous black spot or fcab on the back side os
the leaf
Observ. X X. Of blue Mould, and os the firsl Principles of Ve-
getation arising srom P utrefadion.
THe Blue and White and several kinds of hairy mouldy spots, which
are obfervable upon divers kinds oiputrify a bodies, whether Ani-
mal substances,or Vegetable,such as the skin,rawor dress’d, sscsfebloud,
humours, milk, green Cheese, &c. or rotten sappy Wood, or Herbs,
Leaves, Barks, Roots, &c. of Plants, are all of them nothing else but se-
veral kinds of small and variously figur’d Mushroms, which, from convex
nient materials inthofe/«tr{$/>£ bodies, are, by the concurrent heat of
the Air, excited to a certain kind of vegetation, which will not be un-
worthy our more ferious speculation and examination, as I shall by and
by (hew. But,first,I must premife a short defcriptioh of this Specimen9
which I have added of this Tribe, in the first Figure of the XII. Scheme^
which is nothing else but the appearance of a small white spot of hairy
mould,multitudes of which I found to bespeck & whiten over the ted co-
vers of a fmall book, which, it feeins, were ofSheeps-skin,that being more
apt to gather mould, even in a dry and clean room, then other leathers.
Thefe spots appear’d,through a goodA/zrrtf/?^e,to be a very pretty (hap’d
Vegetative body, which, from alssiost the same part os the Leather, (hot
out