eo 
of a minute epibbyllous Lycoperdon. 307 | 
* Tantibus exafperatur:" which obfervation Yohn Baubme, his la- 
borious brother, repeats in the Hi/foria Plantarum, tom. iii. p. 413. 
Ca/par Baukine, again, in the Pinax itfelf, makes it his feventh fpe- 
cies of the Anemones fylveffres, under the name of Anemone nemorofa 
frerilis, foliis punétatis, p. 177. 
. 1 find other authors alfo charaéterifing this plant, as a variety 
of the Anemone nemorofa, by the epithets or trivial adjunéts /Zgma- 
toides, infeétorum vitium, &c. Such are Maurice HoFFMANN, in his 
Flora Altdorfina in 1662, and BromeLius, in his Chloris Gothica in 
1694. But not having an opportunity of referring to thefe authors, 
I am unable to fay how far their obfervations extend. It feems, 
however, that HorrMANN was the firft who afcribed thefe appear- 
ances to the work of infects: but he does not fay they were the 
CBS Sut feems rather to confider them as the effect of pun&ures 
h [EN TZEL, in his Judex Nominum Migxau guiilag guis, printed 
in 1682, dnra it "under the name of Ranunculus n vs ofus figma- 
toides, p. 258. But, in his Pugillus rariorum Plantarum, he goes 
much farther, and caught the idea of its refemblance to a Fern. 
« Hic abfque flore crefcit, et folia fubtus tamque rubigine adfperfa, 
** habet quafi in capillarem plantam degener." By this defcription 
it evidently appears, that MENTZEL had examined the plant in 
the mature ftate of thefe Fungilli, when indeed it bears a notable 
refemblance-to a {mall Fern. The root of the Anemone nemorofa is . 
known to creep in a horizontal dire&ion; and MENTZEL obferves, 
that, unlike to the flowering fpecies, which puts forth the leaf 
from the middle of the root, this frerile plant always fends up the 
{talk from one of the extremities, I mention this, fince a few ob- 
fervations of my own, made by digging up the roots, tend to con- 
firm the remark of this author. He notices further the length 
of the footítalk or petiole, which, with a palenefs of the leaves, 
Rr2 diftinguith 
