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VIII. Some Remarks oc caponed hy the precede- 
ing Paper, addrejfed to the Royal So- 
ciety by Mr, William W atfon, Apothecary y 
and F.R.S. 
Gentlemen, 
Re^/Nov.17. npHE Reverend Mr. ‘Pickering having 
1 74? ‘ X at y° ur iaft Meeting laid before you 
an ingenious* 1 Account, and fhewn you, by the Aflift- 
ance of a Microfcope, the Seeds of Two Sorts of 
Fungus s , which were imagined, by many prelent, to 
have been undifcovered before 5 I hope 1 iliali not be 
thought to detract from that learned Gentleman's 
Merit, if I mention the firft Obferver of thofe minute 
Bodies, although till now they never have, to my 
Knowledge, been fhewn in England : For, however 
great my Zeal is to give the Honour of any Difcovery 
to my own Countrymen, yet Candour will not per- 
mit me to give it them to the Prejudice of thofe of 
another Nation. It was to the late Sig r - Micheli , 
Profefl’or of Botany at Florence , that the World 
owes the Difcovery of the Seeds of Mufhrooms, as well 
as the Flowers and Seeds of the various Species of 
Lichen or Liverwort : He not only faw with his 
Glades, but raifed from their Seeds, many Kinds of 
Mufhrooms, as may be feen from his Experiments in 
Page 135. of his incomparable Work intituled, Nova 
plant arum Genera , printed at Florence in the Year 
1729. He conftantly obferved the Seeds produce the 
fame Species, as in the more perfed Plants. 
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