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References to the Figures, fee Tab. II. Fig. 4 and 5 . 
a. The Circumference ncareft to the Belly 36 Inches 
and an half. 
b. The thickeft Part, 3 8 Inches. 
c . From a to c, the Length, 34 Inches, 
d The Wound. 
e. Several great Protuberances. 
VII. A Letter from Mr. Wm. Watfon, F.R.S. 
to the Royal Society; containing fur- 
ther Remarks concerning Mufhrooms : Oc~ 
cafioned by the Reverend Mr. Pickeringk 
F. R. S. Faper in the preceding Tranfatd, 
p. 9 6. with Obfervations upon the poifonous 
Faculty offome Sorts of Fungi. 
Gentlemen , 
Read May 31. ▼HOPE I fhall have the Reverend Mr. 
1744 JL dickering s Excufe, if I lay before you 
a few further Obfervations upon his Papers concerning 
Mufhrooms. 
With regard to the Seeds of Mufhrooms, although 
they were never {hewn to the Royal Society 
before, the Fad was known to many Members thereof : 
for the induftrious Micheli did not only raife Mufh- 
rooms from their Seeds, but has, in his Tables, fhewn 
the daily Progrefs from their firfi: Point of Vegetation, 
even to their perfed State. 
The Fungus porofus crajfus magnus is not the 
Mulhroom ufually railed in England for the Table, 
G 2 as 
