£6 Mr. Woopw ARD's Effay towards an 
two fpecies can be; and that Mr. Bryant has totally confounded 
what he meant to elucidate. This has happened from his forming 
a theory for himfelf, and then torturing the account of the different 
fpecimens he has met with, to make them accord with this theory. 
5. It has been obferved before, that Linnæus mentions but 
one plant of this kind, to which he has given the appofite trivial 
name of ftellatum; and has charaéterifed it in the following 
words: 
Lycoperdon ftellatum—Vo/va multifida patente, capitulo glabro: ore 
acuminato dentato. Sp. pl. 1653.— FI. 
Suec. No. 1277. 
To this Hudfon in his Fl. Ang. added another, under the name 
of fornicatum, which he has thus charaéterifed. 
Lycoperdon fornicatum—Volva quadrifida fornicata, capitulo glabro: 
ore obtufo ciliato. Fl. Ang. ed. 1ma, 502. 
ed. 2da, 644. 
This perfe&ly diftinguifhes it from the ftellatum of Linnzus, 
without the neceffity of making any alteration in the fpecific cha- 
racter of that plant; a circumftance which very frequently becomes 
neceffary when any new fpecies is introduced into a genus. It is to 
be obferved, that no notice is taken of the pedunculated head; this 
being at that time unneceffary, as Dillenius's figure of ftellatum, 
R. Syn. ed. 3tia, and the figures of fornicatum referred to in Fl. 
Ang. reprefent the plants with peduncles. 
6. Mr. Bryant, diffatisfied with this arrangement, from having 
met with a ftellated Lycoperdon having a feffile head, was imme- 
diately impreffed with an idea, that this circumftance was the only 
. proper one to form a fpecific diftinction (p. 10). He therefore 
directly concluded, that all fpecimens which had the head fupport- 
ed on a peduncle, muft form one fpecies; and all thofe in which 
the head was feffile, another. And as it was abfolutely impoffible, 
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