34 oMr. Woonpwanp's Effay towards an ` 
Blackftone, Spec. botam: p. 24. t. 2. The firt mention made by 
Linnæus of the Lycoperdon ftellatum appears to be in Hort. Chiff. 
ann. 1737, after which it is mentioned in Fl. Suec. and Sp. pl. ; but 
in the lateft editions of the works of this illuftrious author.no notice 
istakén of any other fimilar fpecies. «It is-from this probable, that, 
ifany other had fallen under his obfervation; he confidered them as 
varieties of the ftellatum not worth noticing; it. being well known 
that this order of plants obtained but a very {mall {hure of his at- 
tention.» Haller Hift. Stirpe: Helv, tom. 3.2174, quotes Lannzus's 
Lyc. ftell. and has referred to Watíon Phil. Tranfand Blackftone 
Sp. bot. for (what he-confiders as) a flight variety of it; but 
informs us that he had never {een this plant. He- alfo refers to 
Eph: nat..cur. for Anthropomorphus; but he has quoted the fame 
work ann. 4. obf. 9o. for ftellatum, which he could. not shave 
done had he actually. confulted it before’ he had made his. rez 
ference. 
'-3. Other more recent authors* muft be paffed over to come to = 
ingenious countryman Hudfon, who deferves the warmeft thanks 
of all Englifh . botanifts, for having firft completed an Engliíh 
Flora, in which he has with admirable fagacity adapted the Sy- 
nopfis of our immortal. Ray to the Syftem of the illuftrious Lin- 
nzusj a work in-which the errors are fo few, that, inftead of cavil- 
ling at them, it muft be matter of furprife, to all fuch as are com-- 
petent to judge of the difficulty of the undertaking, - that they are 
not much more numerous.: This author, in his firft edit. 1764, 
has enumerated, along with the other fpecies of the genus Lyco- 
aM two which are = viz. the ftellatum Sen to 
ut It may à Bn sheer, that Lightfoot Fi. Scot. 1068, takes notice that the = Li. 
fell. Linn. had not: then been found in Scotland ; but that it probably would, as it was 
found i in Sweden, which was farther north. This opinion has been fince verified, as it 
was s found near Edinburgh by our Prefident, ann. 1782. 
which 
