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which figures, I think, are in a middle ftate partaking equally of the onG 

 and of the other. 



I would be underftood at all times, to fuppofe, that the figures given 

 by authors, are faithful copies, drawn with proper care from the object 

 prefent, and in a frefh ftate at the time of drawing: — Mine are fo. I 

 have endeavoured to imitate every object juft as I found it, not daring to 

 make any alterations for the fake of beauty or of elegance. It is not im- 

 probable but thefe plants may vary in point of fize, fmoothnefs, bright- 

 nefs of colour, &c. in proportion to the warmth and richnefs of the foil 

 and climate where they grow; he who collates my figures, with the glow- 

 ing tints bellowed on thole of Schoeffer, or with the plump and rich 

 appearance of molt of thofe of Bulliard, may form to himfelf an idea 

 of great difference obtaining, between the cold barren mountains of York- 

 Jlu're, and the rich and fertile woods of Bavaria, or the deliciou6 fields of 

 France.. 



The ingenious Monfieur Bulliard has now nearly compleated that 

 part of his elegant work, which treats of the Funguffes of France. It 

 confifts of about three hundred plates, with figures illuminated ; in the 

 fmaller fubjects feveral are figured on one plate ; in the larger only one ; 

 both in the one and in the other, many varieties are figured on feparate 

 plates, and are confidered as fpecies. 



He has formed a new Genera Fungorum y which, as it has not yet fallen 

 into the hands of many of my countrymen, I hope they will not be dif- 

 pleafed to fee the order in which he has arranged them, together with the 

 properties and characters which conftitute each genus. 



He divides the whole into four general orders ; the firfr. order includes 

 alL fuch as generate feeds within the fubftance of their own flelh, and con- 

 tains ten genera, viz. Tuber, Reticulata, Mucor, Trichia, Sphaerocarpus, 

 Lycoperdon, Nidularia, Hypoxylon, Veriolaria, and Clathrus. 



The fecond order contains two genera, viz. Cfavaria and Tremella. 



The third divifion or order contains alfo two, viz. Peziza and Phallus.. 



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