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PLATE XXXVIII. LETTER XXXII 
CRYP TO GAMIA FUNGI. Funguses. 
Agaricus Dillen. giss. p. 185. 
Fig. 1. Plants of different ages, and of their 
natural size. 
a Is the fungus in its perfect or adult state. 
b The same in its middle state. 
c Small plants just rising. 
Fig. 2. A parcel of knotted threads from 
the fungus marked b , supposed 
to be the stamens. 
Fig. 3. A section of the cap ( a ) and la¬ 
mella (^6) of the same small 
fungus magnified. 
Fig. 4. The ripe seeds of this fungus much 
magnified. 
Obs. Th ese four plates are copied from 
Hedwig’s Theoria, as it would 
have answered little purpose to 
figure such minute plants of their 
natural size only. 
THE END. 
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