56 Mr. WoopwAnp's Effay towards an 
or feffile; and the fyn. are fo contradictory, that nothing can be 
made out from them. He quotes Eph. nat. cur. ann. 4. obf. 92. 
which is Lyc. fornicatum Hudf. for this fpecies. Mich. t. 100. f. 6. 
with the teflelated rays is alfo mentioned as a variety, and alfo the 
plant with the rays again divided, f 5. | 
Scop. carn. 1633 and 1634, enumerates two fpecies, of which the 
firft from the fpecific character fhould be recolligens; but the 
diagn. contradicts this, and his fyn. will not help the difficulty. He 
quotes Hamb. Mag. tom. 5. p. 411. f. 1. for this fpecies, and f. 403. 
J: 5. for coronatum; but thefe figures, which are very bad, repre- 
fent the fame plant. : The references for coronatum are quite con- 
tradi&ory 5 as it is impoffible that Sch. 182. 1. Bat. 30. 1. and Mich. 
100. 3. can all reprefent the fame plant, and Sch. 182. 1. and 182. 
2. differ but in fize from each other. The coronatum is defcribed as 
growing on decayed trees, for fo I muft underftand * 7s truncis* to 
mean, and none of our ftellated Lycoperdons are ever found in this 
 fituation. 
Mich. nov. gen. 220, 1. 100. f. 1—6. Geafter. This author has 
defcribed and figured fix fpecies. One of thefe, No. 3. f. 2. is de- 
fcribed as having a fhort peduncle; but neither defcriptions nor 
figures point out whether the heads of the reft are feffile or pedun- 
- culated, No. t. f. I. is doubtfully referred to R. fyn. but from the 
number and regularity of the rays, the form of the head and 
mouth, and the apparent tendency of the rays, as reprefented in 
the plate, to turn upwards, it more refembles recolligens. No. 4 
f. 4. exa@ly refembles f. 1. except that it has fix rays only ; 
. and the mouth is quite naked; a circumftance which prevents its 
being fafely referred to any Britifh fpecies. No. 3. f. 2. fomewhat 
refembles the fmall variety of ftellatum; but the head is {carcely 
flat enough, and the peduncle is not foras: No. 2. f. 3. feems to 
be really —— No. 5. f. 5. refembles ftellatum with the rays - 
2 fplit, 
