3 o8 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



48. Small turret-like pulverulent MuJ/yrome, -with fjjile rays, and aft d- 

 late ofculum (k). I met with this beautiful and uncommon fpe- 

 cies on a ditch-bank by the military road, at a fmall diftance 

 from a remarkable precipice in the Roman-wall, called the Peel; 

 where there were two or three of them together in September. 



Mulhromes iricreafe by feed, and by their ftolens or fuckers, 

 and conftantly produce the fame fpecies as other plants. For the 

 firfl clear difcovery of their propagation by feed, we are indebted 

 to Micheli. He not only beheld them with his microfcope, but 

 demonilrated them by experiments. He preferved and fowed 

 feveral fpecies, and brought them to perfection. For later dif- 

 coveries, we are obliged to our own conntryman, Dr. Hill. Be- 

 fore their difcoveries were made, the learned Dr. Lifter was of 

 opinion, that the lamella, or gills of muihromes, were the cap- 

 ful<s or pods for their feeds, but did not give any proof of their 

 exiftence by experiments. 



(k) Geafter volvas radiis & operculo elevatis. D. Watfon. Ph. Tr. No. 474. Lycoper- 

 don volva ftellata radiis fiflilibus. Hill, Nat. Hid. PI. p. 52. 



