152 AN INTRODUCTION 
Jame Plant as the female Floret, or on a dif= 
tinc? one; andthe female aggregate, or _finz- 
g. The Order contains eleven Genera, 
viz. Lycopodium, Poreila, Sphagnum, Pha/f- 
cain, Splachnum,Polytrichum, Mnium, Bryum, 
Hypium, F ontinalis, and Buxbaumua. 
Orver Ill. 4ALGA, Flags. The Plants 
comprehended under this Order have their 
Root, Stem, and Leaf, all in one. The 
Chara@ters of the Fruétification of this Or- 
der are not yet known, excepting the féw 
Defcriptions given by Michelius. The Ge- 
nera are twelve, viz. “fungermannia, Targio- 
nta, Marchantia, Blafia, Riccia, Anthoceros, 
Lachen, Tremella, Fucus, Ulva, Conferva, and 
Byfis 
ORDER IV. FUNGI, Mujbrooms. The 
Genera of this Order are given by Linnaeus 
after the Method of Dillenius*. The Frue- 
tification being imperfeétly knqwn, no Cha- 
rater can be affigned forthis Order, farther 
than the Title, which is familiar to every 
one. The Genera are ten, viz. Agaricus, 
* Linnaeus tells us, he preferred the Method of Dil- 
Jenius for the Fungi to that of AZichelius ; becaufe it was 
plain to‘every one ; whereas that of Afichelius, though’ 
that Author has thrown. great Light upon this Tribe, | 
required too nice an Infpection. 
Boletus, 
