INTRODUCTION. 



GENUS XIII. PEZIZA. 



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A Fungus hollowed out at the top, in form of a bowl, a fhield, a box, 

 a bladder, or purfe ; and from this part only emitting feeds, fometimes 

 by jerks, with intermiffions, as if caufed by irritation. 



GENUS XIV. PHALLUS. 



A foot-ftalked Fungus ; the upper part in the form of a hat, hollowed 

 out in cells, and from thefe only pouring out feeds. 



GENUS XV. AURICULARIA. 



A Fungus, fefTile, and generally membranaceus, growing to trunks of 

 trees, or the ground, by all its inferior furface; as it grows older, and is 

 more unfolded, it is loofened, and turned upfide down ; it emits feeds 

 from the fuperior furface, then become the inferior, but in a flow and long 

 lapfe of time. 



GENUS XVI. HE L FELLA. 



A Fungus, generally growing perpendicularly, never, while unfold- 

 ing, departing from its original habit; emitting feeds, in a fhort time, 

 from its inferior furface, (which is either fmooth or veiny,) with jets at 

 intervals, as if caufed by irritation. 



GENUS XVII. HVDNUM. 



A Fungus, expanded, on the lower fide, into folid prickles, generally 

 cylindrical, pointing ftrait to the ground, and emitting feeds from every 

 point of their furface. 



GENUS XVIII. FISTU L IN A. 



A Fungus, expanded in the lower furface, into feparate tubes, like the 

 prickles of the Hydnum, and in thefe tubes nourilhing its feeds. Only 

 one fpecies of this genus has hitherto offered itfelf to obfervation; it is 

 flefhy, foft, and divided into two parts. 



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