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prove his hypothefis, or even fuggeft any reafon for a 
new one, about the propagation of the Fungi ; for 
why may not the cap of the Fungus afford as proper 
a bed for a feed, that happens to be lodged there as 
the earth itfelf ? We know that a birch tree has often 
been found growing out of the head of an oak, yet no 
one fufpeds from thence, that the birch is propagated 
without feed. Our author, indeed, feems to be fen- 
fible himfelf of the infufficiency of his arguments, hi- 
therto made ufe of, to prove his new hypothefis, and- 
fufpeds, he fays, had he nothing more to produce in 
its favour, people might be apt to make objeaionsi 
but luckily he has two other Fungi, that will ferve his 
purpofe better, which are reprefented by figure the 
fifth and laft. In thefe the edges of the piieus of one 
Fungus adheres only to the upper furface of the piieus 
of another, and receives thence all its nourifhment. 
Now, though it may he difficult to account for this 
grange pofition, yet, I think, the confequence our 
author draws from it does not follow, viz. thatrungi 
differ from other plants, as to propagation, and m 
feme other refpeds. As to propagation, the fame 
anfwer will ferve, that was made ufe of above ; and 
what farther particulars, in this infiance, deferve no- 
tice, will be confidered, when I come to my obfer- 
vations on the corollaries he draws from all the l ungi 
reprefented in his book. 
The corollaries are as follow: , 
Corol. i ft, That the mode of rife, evolution, in- 
crement, and propagation, of Fungi, muft be of ft 
peculiar kind, and totally different from that which 
prevails in other kinds of plants. 
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