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148 The Floral King.
link, so that what was thought would have aided the
cause, is just that which ruins it, and that as truly as
I hope to be saved, remember my words in the future.”
UPSALA, 22ND MARCH, 175I, TO WARGENTIN, THE
SECRETARY OF THE RoyAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.
‘* Baron Muchhausen wrote ten years ago that the
seeds of mushrooms are alive; I do not know any-
one who has made an observation about this. Just
now I have seeds of mildewed ears and mushrooms
in water, and I have watched them gambol, like
fishes in the spawning season—before they fix them-
selves and are transformed into mushrooms. A
strange and wondrous metamorphosis! Quis nisi
vidisset crederet? I have shown them alive to all my
disciples who have been with me. I verify Plinus:
mihi contuenti sese persuasit rerum natura nihil incredible
existimare de ea.
“Tn insects we often see caterpillars sodormant that
they can scarcely move, yet they transform into the
most lively creatures, and here we see most lively
creatures transformed into motionless and almost
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