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arc not their Seeds, but rather their Suckers, Sto- 
lones'-i which, in mod others of this Tribe, are pro- 
duced from the Root ; but from both thefe, as in many 
of the Kinds of Lichen , and in the ‘Dent aria 
b'ulbifera , are produced from other Parts of the 
Plant. I cannot help obferving, that in almoft all 
Plants, whofe Seeds are produced fparingly, or are 
difficult to be faved, Nature abundantly makes up that 
Deficiency by the great Increafe of their Roots, 
whereby their Species may eafily be propagated 5 as 
ismanifeft in Mufhrooms, Potatoes, Crocus’s, Golden- 
rods, Starworts, and above all in the Corona Solis, fore 
parvo> tuber ofa radice , of M. Tournefort , vulgarly called. 
Jerufalem Artichokes , the Seeds of which, from the 
Shortness of our Summer, having never as yet ripened 
in England. 1 fhall only add, that although many 
Species of Mufhrooms are eatable, and fome of them 
better flavoured than the common Sort, the Gardeners, 
only propagate that Sort with red Gills, called, by way 
of Excellence, Champignon y a Name given by the* 
French to all forts of Mufhrooms? but fome defcrK 
ptive Word is added to them, whereby they may be. 
diftinguifhed from this. The Method of propagating 
Mufhrooms according to the ufual Pradlice, viz. 
from their Suckers, was firft mentioned by La 
Brojfe, in his Treatife De la., Nature des TlanteSy 
and afterwards by Monfieur Tournefort in the Me- 
moirs of the Academy of Sciences , Anno 1707. 
Page 72. Iam, Gentlemen, 
With great RefpeSt , 
Nov. 17-1743. Tour ?noft obedient , 
Humble Servant , 
William Watfon. 
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