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decayed fpecimen, the head being irregularly torn and broken. 
Ray, Syn. ed. 2da, app. alo defcribes one fpecies, found by Doody 
1695 ; and in ed. 3fia, two fpecies. Of thefe, one is the common 
Lycoperdon ftellatum, of which Dillenius has there added a fig. 
t. I. f. r. and the other is referred to the plant of the 2d edit. and 
to the fig. of Tournefort before mentioned; but this is defcribed 
by Ray, p. 28, coli inflar perforatus, which does not at all agree with 
the figure of Tournefort, arid feems too remarkable a circumftance 
not to have been noticed in the Inft. (hort as the characters there 
given are. Micheli, Nov. pl. gen. p. 220, has enumerated, and has 
figured, t. 100, five fpecies, under the expreffive generic name 
Geafter. Three of thefe are referred, but doubtfully, to the authors - 
before mentioned; and all of them feem reducible to Lycoperdon 
ftellatum Linn. or to the fuppofed varieties of that fpecies. Morifon, 
Hift. Oxon. tom. 3. p. 641, mentions the ftellatum, but this is quoted 
from R. Syn. and not given on his own authority. 
2. 'The firít mention of the fpecies fince called by Mr. Hudfon 
Lycoperdon fornicatum, appears to have been under the fanciful 
name Anthropomorphus, by Sterbeck, Theatr. fung. and Seger, Eph. 
nat. cur. where a clufter is figured, with human faces drawn on the 
heads! Which of thefe authors was the original, and which the 
copier of this abfurdity, is hardly worth enquiring ; but as Sterbeck's 
book was publifhed in 1675, and the £^. nat. cur. began in 169o, it 
moft probably belongs to the former. Mor. Hf. Ox. tom. 3. p. 641, 
mentions the Anthropomorphus, and its authors, but it is only to 
exprefs his admiration at the abfurdity. Seg. Eph. nat. cur. ann. 4. 
two years after the firft, gives a tolerably good figure of Lyc. 
fornicatum, a folitary fpecimen. The firft notice of this plant 
by any Britifh author is in the Phil. Tranf. va. xliii, p. 234, where an 
extremely good figure and an account are given by the late Sir Wm. 
Watfon. After this an excellent reprefentation was given by 
Vor. Il. F Black- 
