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triemnanes, and other capillary plants, with nodules

of lone formed about them ; flags, reeds, rules,
equifetum, and many loch, of a firm texture, arc found
in ilate and Rove; ua,dcertsthoiulioftcnena,nfajsj
to have been found foffil as well as their leaves.
Segos and FRUITS.
All feeds and the fonts of fruits, having a firm
texture, arc silo capable of being firongly impregna-
ted with Remy and pyritical matrix ; and I make no
doubt but that lc frame feeds, if carefully looked
for, might be found loft!, as well as thefe before
you; Lush, I mean, as have a firmnefs in the cover-
ing ; but being fmall, and mixt with the dirt, land,
mal the like, probably is the fusion of the...being over-
koked. Fruits of various kindt are found petrified ;
bet this is only in their green Rate, when they are
bwv1 enough m endure till they are impregnated
with flony or mineral particles. The rudiments of
fruits, when once well forrned, and a little advan-
ced, are firm and acid : and the more remote they are
from maturity, the more lieu= from, putrifalion;
snd their rid juice is no finall help to their prefer-
vation fr(101 growing loon rotten. But indeed, when
the fruit advances in growth, the texture grows gra-
dually mare lax ; the acid juices are now beginning
as he replaced by faccharine or others more foft; the
fibres are driven farther afunder, and they now arrive at
&kind! ripe Bate: and the utmoft maturity of fruits
the next Asp to putrifatlion. Hence they are de-
an:yard before fiony or other putieles Can have time
weigh to impregnate them : and this is exialy the
cafe with the !lel; of animals of every kind. The
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