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benevolence and friendship, but mostly too 

 fickle to be entitled to confidence. 



Varieties not permanent. 



Agarico, (mushroom growth,) thick, swollen, all 

 parts unusually disdented in early life, and not 

 in conformity with ancestral lineage. 

 Albino, hair milk-white ; skin of a deathly white ; 

 eyes weak and tremulous. This variety is 

 common to the three permanent varieties, and its 

 peculiarities are not hereditary. 

 Remarks. The three primitive varieties are 

 intermixed in all proportions. But in some coun- 

 tries they remain distinct through many genera- 

 tions. The Egyptian mummies appear to have 

 been Mongolians ; therefore the present variety 

 seems to have remained unchanged three thousand 

 years. We find hut few specimens of either of 

 the three varieties, in perfection in North Ameri- 

 ca. Most negroes of the Northern states have 

 lost chiefly their primitive Ethiopian character; 

 and many European Caucasians seem to partake 

 of the characteristics of the three varieties. 

 See MS. P. 



131. HYDRA. Spec. 5. 



i (green jelly,) tentacular about ten, shorter 

 than the body. Appears like a drop of green jel- 

 ly on the under surface of plants in water when 

 at rest, but is linear and fixed at one end when 

 in action, with its tentaculse extended, lu fresh 

 water. 

 See MS. P. 



