An account of a new zoophyte, or animal plant, from Groenland : in a letter to Albert Haller / Written in High German by Christlob Mylius ; Now translated into English.

  • Christlob Mylius
Date:
1754
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Credit: An account of a new zoophyte, or animal plant, from Groenland : in a letter to Albert Haller / Written in High German by Christlob Mylius ; Now translated into English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a lighter Colour. After I had cut open one of the largeft along the Infide, it ap¬ peared as by Fig. 5. It will be neceffary, for the explaining of this Figure, to give fome Defcription of the Shape and Situation of the inner Texture, whofe Parts are fome- thing of a lighter Colour, and more tender* Along through the Middle runs a Parti¬ tion, dividing itfelf afunder, on the inner Part of the Piece, in two Skins, which, as they turn over to both Sides, and being grown together with, the outer Skin of the Piece, caufe to both Sides of the Partition a Space refembling the Shape of a Cone, or there¬ abouts. Belides thefe two Spaces there are two more of the fame Shape, one at each Edge all along the Piece, arifmg from the Skin’s turning over to both Sides. Thefe two outermoft Spaces, or Cavities, are empty, but the two inner ones, next to the Partition, are found of an Organick Structure within, confifting of a Number of very fmall and C 2 tender
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