which are Pogi f the 7. Beat. — 125 
Fungi by Meff. Withering, Woodward, Dickfon, Bolton, Sowerby, 
&c. yet the knowledge of this clafs of vegetables is adbuc im incuna- 
bulis, and many years muft elapfe before we may expe&t to fee it 
upon the fame firm footing with the other che of botany- 
There is fcarcely a leaf (at leaft of trees and fhrubs) falls to the 
ground,'that has not its peculiar Fungus, which, affifted by humi- 
dity, reduces it to its original earth. . The fame obíervation may 
be extended to fticks (w) and ftalks, and many other 'fubftances. 
‘Fhe more we attend: to thefe things, the further we fhall fee into 
the plan of Divine Providence, : and, every. ftep: we take, be more. and. 
more convinced that, there.is nothing either, deficient or fu perfluous; 
but that all things are created in weight and meafure, and work to- 
gether (whether their offer po rp olere or or to deron #2 mote 
‘the beft ends by sb moft efficacious means.. ; | 
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