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GENUS II. RETICULA R I A. 



A Fungus, which in its firft ftage is foft; generally fwelling with a 

 thick juice; afterwards gradually acquiring a firmnefs in fnch a manner, 

 that by drying it becomes friable; when broken it llievvs its feeds in form 

 of powder, which are fometimes entangled in intricate fibres; fometimes 

 interfered with fmall membranes like network, and fometimes alfo nett- 

 ling in a kind of leathery cafes. 



GENUS III. MUCOR. 



A fmall Fungus, generally of fhort duration; fometimes fcattered; 

 fometimes growing like a turf, confitting of very (lender pedicles, fingle 

 or branched, fometimes terminated with naked feeds; fometimes as with 

 down from fmall cluttered branches more or lefs diverging, every one of 

 which confitts of feeds linked together; fometimes alfo by a bladder-like 

 roundilh or oval Pericarp, nourifhing the feeds which have no vifible net. 



GENUS IV. TRICHIA. 



A fmall pediculous Fungus, generally fitting on a membranaceous bafe, 

 which is common to many of them. The Pericarp in its firtt ftage is tur- 

 binated, oblong, or fubcyndrical, tranfparent, refembling a milky froth in 

 ibftnefs and whitenefs, afterwards it is opake, pillar-fhaped, formed within 

 of thread-like net-work, without of intricate hairs, firft contracted to a 

 membrane, afterwards loofe and like a lattice, it emits its feeds through 

 apertures, with which the whole furface is covered. 



GENUS V. S P HJEROCA R P U S. 



A fmall flefhy or leather-like Fungus, fitting on a membranaceous bafe, 

 which is common to many of them, crowded together; they are pediculed 

 or feffile. The Pericarp globular, turbinated or cylindrical, at firtt full, 

 firm and opake, afterwards irregularly torn in every part, it emits feeds 

 from a hair-like net. 



GENUS VI. LTCOPERDON. 



A Fungus with a Pericarp, in its firft ftate filled with a certain firm 

 flefh, which afterwards being turned to duft compofed of feeds and down, 



is 



