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benevolence and friendship, but mostly too 
fickle to be entitled to confidence. 
Varieties not permanent. 
Agarico, Gnushroom growth,) thick, swollen, alt 
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. ‘Phe Kgypiian mummies appear to have 
been Mongolians ; therefore the present variety 
seems to have remained unchanged three thousand 
years. We find but 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. 
18—1. Hypra. Spec. 5. 
viridis, (green jelly,) tentacule 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 tentacule extended. In fresh 
water. 
See MS. P. 
