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§ 3. There will be no plates of the Fungi, but 
fuch as have been examined from the firfl: growth, 
and, if poffible, from the egg, or feed, as it is called. 
§ 4. There will be at leaft the following primary 
figures of every kind of Fungi ; viz. The Fungus be- 
fore it is unfolded. 2. When it is half perfed, or 
half grown. 3. Its charaderiftic appearance. 4. Its 
«lifiedion. Laftly, whenever it may be neceflary, In 
its decaying ftate. 
§ 5. Belides thefe primary figures, there will be 
added as many fecondary ones, as there are changes, 
which may render a Fungus dubious ; and the author 
forefees, that fometimes one fpecies may require two, 
three, or four plates. 
§ 6. The plates will be all engraved by able artifls, 
and well coloured. 
§ 7. All the parts ferving for propagation will be 
reprefented, both according to their natural appear- 
ances, and alfo magnified. 
§ 8. Whenever it may be necefiary, figures repre- 
fenting particular parts difieded will be made ufe of, 
both of the natural bignefs, and as feen through the 
glafs. 
§ 9. In all the names and divifion of the genera, 
Linnaeus alone will be followed. 
§ 10. To give a greater variety to the work, in its 
progrefs, fometimes the fpecies of one genus will be 
published, fometimes of another; but yet in fuch a 
manner, that order will not be totally negleded. 
§ 11. No order will be obferved, either in the 
fpecies or in the individuals. No fpecific names, or 
iynonyms, will be given ; inftead of which, they 
will be numbered according to each genus, and a 
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