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meadows, arid lands, and fandy valleys. The. 
colour is a brownifh green ; the figure irregular, 
and refembling a leaf carelefsly folded. When 
feparated with the fingers, fome refiftance is felt, 
fuch as one feels on tearing a young leaf. If a 
fudden drought happens, the noftoc contratts 
and dries, remaining only a Shrivelled fine thin 
fin. If a fudden and heavy rain falls, it again 
becomes green, and refumes its original fize. 
Therefore the noftoc, as Reaumur, who has 
furnifhed me with this intelligence, obferves, is a 
plant of a fingular kind, fince it recovers life af- 
ter being in a {tate which to others would be per 
manent death (1). 
Vou: II. M The 
(1) I have never been able to find the ¢remella noftoc ; 
but I have made a few experiments on fome plants of the 
fame genus. There is one, of a beautiful yellow, which 
in damp or wet weather appears on decayed wood. ‘The 
largeft, when in full vigour, that I have met with, is about 
an inch and a quarter long, and about an inch high, of an 
irregular figure. I believe it is the tremella dilequefcent. 
When allowed to dry, it becomes of a deep brown colour, 
not an eighth of an inch in fize, and very hard. By wet- 
ting it, the full fize and figure are re-acquired. It may be 
repeatedly dried and moiftened without injury. I think 
it is longer of expanding and of the expanfion being com- 
plete according to the period of defiecation and the num- 
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