xvi INTRODUCTION. 



the plant, with its radical cord, both the firft and fecond year. Its time- 

 is in October. 



fTo be continued in the fecond Volume 



The fecond Volume will contain the remainder of the Agarics, with 

 the three fucceeding Genera, the Boletus, Hydnum,. and Phallus. 



The third will contain the other feven, viz. the Clathrus, Halvella, 

 Peziza, Clavaria, Lycoperdon, Spharia, and Mucor ; many of which be- 

 ing fmall objects, will be engraved feveral on a plate, 



To many of the plants, here figured and defcribed, I have not been 

 able to apply the Synonyma of Authors, becaufe I had not an .oppor- 

 tunity of perufing their works; therefore, any communications from 

 Eotanilts, which may afiift me in applying thole Synonyma, particularly 

 thofe of Schoeffer, (whofe valuable work I never faw) will be thank- 

 fully acknowledged. 



*#* The Reader is defired to obferve, that the Defcription and the 

 Drawing were not always taken from the fame fpecimen — the periihable 

 nature of the plant often not admitting it ; and where the figure does not 

 exactly coincide with the defcription, in regard to the precife hue of 

 colour, — fo much variation prevailed between the individual which was 

 defcribed, and the individual which was painted. 



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