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T. S. 
I had forgot to mention under the Article b . Fig. 2 . 
that the thin Filament is that to which the Edges of 
the Head of the Mufhroom adhere, while it is, what 
is commonly called, a Button, and from which it 
feparates by expanding into a Flap. 
T. S. 
Since I wrote the above, I have met with <5/^ Mi- 
chel! s Nova Genera Riant arum, wherein I find the Ob- 
fervations which 1 have made upon Mufhrooms, though 
entered upon without any Hint or Dire&ion from 
.him, or any other Writer, pretty near the fame with 
_ his. I think it therefore a Piece of Juftice, due to 
him, and to the Reading and Judgment of Mr. Wat- 
fon , candidly to allow the firft Difcovery of the Seeds 
of Mufhrooms to that Italian Botanift. It fully 
fatisfks my little Ambition to have had the Honour of 
fhewing them the Firft to the Royal Society of 
R. ‘Pickering. 
N. B. I thought proper to print the Reverend Mr. Bickering s Paper 
on the Seeds of Mufhrooms, together with Mr. Watfons Remarks 
upon it j becaufe Sig r ‘ Michsli's Book, being printed at Florence, is not 
in many Peoples Hands here.; and, as that is in Latin , I thought it 
would not be difagreeable to our Gardeners to have an Account of 
this Difcovery in Englijh: Befides, it is but doing Juftice to Mr. 
Pickerings Diligence in learching into the Works of Nature, fince he 
>'ps fo fortunate as to fucceed in a Difcovery which had eluded many 
curious Botanifts, and that without having taken any Hint from Mi- 
ckcli. C. M. 
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