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meadows, is Lycoperdon pratense. The TRUFFLE grows quite 

 under-ground, and is called Tuber cibarium. The MOREL is 

 Morchella esculenta. Then almost all plants when dead, and 

 many while living, are covered with spots or powder, or 

 something growing upon them these are almost all Fungi ; 

 and in fact there is no place kept long damp, or where wood 

 is decaying, or any vegetable substance rotting, without some 

 one or other of the Fungi being produced, and these, though 

 often very minute, are highly curious in form, brilliant in color, 

 and well worthy of the most attentive consideration. The 

 damp days of Autumn encourage the growth of the greatest 

 number of them ; there are few to be found in Winter, but 

 many in the Spring and Summer. 



" Oh ! look at the strange and the whimsical things, 



That among the wild Fungi we find, 

 And Lichens, and Moss, that like fairy works springs, 

 If ye love them not all ye are blind." 



EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 



Alternate One after the other on 

 contrary sides, as the position 

 of numerous leaves. 



Annual PlantsThose that spring 

 up and die the same year. 



Anther The knob that contains 

 the pollen on the top of a stamen. 



Arrow-shaped See Sagittate. 

 Awl-shaped Narrow and pointed. 



Awn The beard of grasses, as in 

 Barley. 



Axil The part where a leaf or 

 flower joins the stem, and where 

 buds are mostly placed. 



Axillary Growing out of an axil. 

 Beak A long point at the top of a 

 seed or seed vessel. 



