Hiftory of the. Britzfb Stellated Lycoperdons. 39 
dentato, and“ ore obtufa cilrato, are futile: (p:x5)5 becaufe the appear- 
ances of the mouth;:and its teeth or ciliæ, vary according to the age 
and ftages of:decay of the plant. This would alío have weight, were 
it confiftent with fact; but the real truth is, that the ciliæ fur: 
roundingithe mouth-of ftellatum: Linn, whether opening to dif- 
charge the duit or not; have always 4 degree: of :convengency; and 
confequently fomewhat of an acuminated appearance§ though this 
is much: more evident im-íome varieties. than.in others, as in 
fome: thefe ciliæ form: a. fharp cone*, and in others, one fo blunt 
as to‘be nearly fat. The fornicatum of Kudfon:on.the contrary, | 
when full: grown, has-always the mouth: openj and the cilia! /fur- 
rounding it forming a (hort cylinder; and when ANNA in age 
thefe cilia are fometimes even reflected. 
8. From thefe confiderations, it 1s afferted! by Mr. Bryant, that 
Lyc. fornicatum of Hudfon is nothing" more than: an accidental 
and flight variety of the plant figured in’ R.»Syn:.; and.that the 
lower volva; or bag as it is called, is never feen but when the plant 
sin a ftate of decay, p. 36. : This he attributes to the feparation of 
the thin outer coat from.decay; and from grafs; mofs, or móuld, in- 
finuating itielf fo as to caufe it to fall from the other, and form the 
bags p- 27: And again, p. 28 * dy tbe fun and drying winds getting 
in, and caufing the two frins to flake from each other, -and:mould con- 
z een getting: ic nee He Hine fame: i 5d aser ots 
2H12 DAR: ? 29 14 bag leoi T 
* A variety of delatum. Lian. and Firmen in Me Rép. canna: 
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ferved here, and every where ate: here the tes is “meritioned by that author, 
that it is his own fpecies which he means, viz. the plant figured in R. Syn. and therefore 
here, and whercver he is endeavouting ta biroliliatki fhet fpecific character of Hudfon’s 
fornicatum, he is defcribing one plant. by. another; and. this unattended to. bas. been 
the caufe of the confufion his, pamphlet h has occafioried. "t is not to be wondered at, that 
he fhould call the diftin€tions of the mouth futile, when nis fpecies forricátüni 4 includes. 
plants having the cilia forming a cone, and others where they form a-cylinder. | 
ES yal manner 
