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The Floral King. 149
lifeless mushrooms. Had Leuwenhock seen these
he would have gained strong argument for his vermi-
culis spermaticis and thought that human beings
grew like mushrooms. Now from these, vermicuti
infusorit are supposed to generate; we shall see if in
the end, all fermentation turns into sheer living
particles, z.e., medullares substantia absque corticali.
‘*A couple of months ago, I got from the Mediter-
ranean, 300 rare insects, I have written to all the
people I know out there, but cannot get to know
who has sent them.”
UPSALA, THE 18TH NOVEMBER, 1746, To P. ELvIus,
SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.
“IT confess that I find it very difficult to give any.
opinion about the bread baked with reindeer moss;
it certainly would be an incomparable thing in times
of dearth, I am sure that Assessor Hesselius means
as well as anyone, but it goes too much against
my ideas.
‘‘t, Because in the entire familie and arts of
mosses exists no esculentum for people, and scarcely
any for quadrupeds, for regarding heath-moss, it
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