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to be ufedj when we fpeak of the Fungi : for thofe 
terms are perfe&ly analogous, by the confeflion of all 
the niceft obfervers of nature ; and what is called the 
egg in animals, goes under the name of feed in ve- 
getables. Thus Linnaeus fays, Philofophia Botanica, 
P* 83. every living thing comes from an egg - con- 
fequently, all vegetables, whofe feeds appear to be 
e £§ s Lom their final caufe, which is to produce an 
offspring. He then cites a paffage from our Harvey, 
to the fame purpofe. Our author feems to have been 
led into this confufion of ideas, by the improper ufe 
of the word femen, or feed, which is applied to the 
impregnating juice in animals, and to the parts which 
contain the embryo in vegetables, which are by no 
means analogous : for the impregnating duff in vege- 
tables, anfwers to the impregnating juice in animals, 
as it has a fimilar ufe ; and the eggs in animals an-^ 
fwer to what we call feeds in plants. 
When our author afferts, in the third corollary, 
that there muff be fuch a fimilarity in all the parts of 
the Fungi, that it is indifferent whether any part be 
placed above or below, whether it communicates or 
receives nourifhment, I fuppofe he draws this corol- 
lary from the fifth and fixth Fungus ; for in thofe, the 
upper Fungus adheres only to the edge of the cap, or 
pileus, of the upper furface of the cap of the lower 
Fungus. The anfwer to this cafe, which was before 
omitted, fhall now be made ; nor is it at all difficult, 
xor it appears, by Dr. Hales’s vegetable Statics, ex- 
periment the 41 , fig. 24 . that a tree inarched be- 
tween two other trees, though its root be cut off, or 
dug out of the ground, will continue to grow; and 
that many trees will grow in an inverted (fate. In 
. what 
