hieroglyphic figure of Adonis seems to have signified the
spirit of animation or life, which was perpetually wooed or
courted by organic matter, and which perished and revived
alternately. Afterwards the fable of Adonis seems to have
given origin to the first religion promising a resurrection
from the dead; whence his funeral and return to life were
celebrated for many ages in Egypt and Syria, the ceremonies
of which Ezekiel complains as idolatrous, accusing the women
of Israel of lamenting over Thammus; which St. Cyril
interprets to be Adonis, in his Commentaries on Isaiah;
Danet's Diction.]

II. "HENCE ere Vitality, as time revolves,
Leaves the cold organ, and the mass dissolves;
The Reproductions of the living Ens
From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence.
New buds and bulbs the living fibre shoots
On lengthening branches, and protruding roots;
Or on the father's side from bursting glands
The adhering young its nascent form expands;
In branching lines the parent-trunk adorns,
And parts ere long like plumage, hairs, or horns. 70

"So the lone Truffle, lodged beneath the earth,
Shoots from paternal roots the tuberous birth;
No stamen-males ascend, and breathe above,
No seed-born offspring lives by female love.
From each young tree, for future buds design'd
Organic drops exsude beneath the rind;
While these with appetencies nice invite,
And those with apt propensities unite;
New embryon fibrils round the trunk combine
With quick embrace, and form the living line: 80
Whose plume and rootlet at their early birth
Seek the dry air, or pierce the humid earth.

[Footnote: _So the lone Truffle_, l. 71. Lycoperdon tuber.
This plant never rises above the earth, is propagated without
seed by its roots only, and seems to require no light.
Perhaps many other fungi are generated without seed by their
roots only, and without light, and approach on the last
account to animal nature.]

[Footnote: _While these with appetencies_, l. 77. See
Additional Note VIII.]

"So safe in waves prolific Volvox dwells,
And five descendants crowd his lucid cells;
So the male Polypus parental swims,
And branching infants bristle all his limbs;
So the lone Taenia, as he grows, prol