Note gg — BOOK VIII.
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Of the rough or hairy Excrescences, those on the Briar, or Dog-Rose, are a good Instance. These Spongiolæ villosæ, as Mr. Ray, Gallæ rumosæ, as Dr. Malpighi calls them, are thus accounted for by the latter; Ex copiosis relictis ovis ita turbatur affluens [Rubi] succus, ut strumosa fiant complura tubercula simul confusè congesta, quæ utriculorum seriebus, & fibrarum implicatione contexta, ramosas propagines germinant, ita ut minima quasi sylva appareat. Qualibet propago ramos, hinc inde villosos edit. Hinc inde pili pariter crumpunt, &c.
These Balls are a safe Repository to the Insect all the Winter in its Vermicular-State. For the Eggs laid up, and hatched the Summer before, do not come to mature Insects until the Spring following, as Mr. Ray rightly observes in Cat. Cantab.
As to the Insects themselves, they are manifestly Ichneumon-Flies, having four Wings, their Alvus thick and large towards the Tail; and tapering up till it is small and slender at its setting on to the Thorax. But the Alvi or Bellies are not alike in all, though coloured alike. In some they are as is now described, and longer, without Terebræ, or Tails; in some shorter with Tails: And in some yet shorter, and thick, like the Belly of the Ant, or the Heart of Animals, as in those before, Note (z). But for a farther Description of them, I shall refer to Mr. Ray, Cat. Plant. circa Cantab. under Rosa Sylvest.