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tunity of feeing many dlfcinCt Seeds, which appeared, 
nearly, of an oval Form, but feveral times larger 
than the Seeds of common Mufhrooms, even when 
fecn with the fecond Magnifier, and the latter with 
the firft. 
I pretend not to any Skill in Botany ; fometimes, 
and, indeed, but feldom, 1 look into an Author on 
the Subject, as an Amufement and Relief to my 
Mind ; therefore it would ill become me to attempt 
the referring this Plant to the proper Clafs. Mi- 
cheli , in his Nova plant a) urn genera , has given us 
the Draught of fome, which well reprefent the Fi- 
gure of them, as they appear, when much magni- 
fied, Tab. LXXXII. Fig. i. and in page 200. of his 
excellent Work, deferibeth them, under this Title, 
Fungoidajlri femine in fuperna parte donati : But 
then his Figures are fuch as the Plants appear to 
have, to the naked Eye (as we may prefume), fince 
he does not fay any thing to the contrary; not to 
mention that there are other different Character if! ics 
in his Defcription. The fame celebrated Writer de- 
feribes another Species, p. 2iy. under the follow- 
ing Title, Mucores pcdxulo donati, which in re (ped 
of Size, the Subftance, and fome other Characters, 
correfpond with thefe I am fpeakingof, well enough : 
But as he refers to Dr. Hooke's Micrographia, Tab. 
Xil. for an elegant Figure of them ( befides what he 
has himfelf given us Tab. py. ), both Dr. Hooke's 
and his own Figures reprefent the Heads, as quite 
fmooth, on the Surface ; and the Doctor, in his De- 
fcription of them p. 126. expreflv fays they are of 
a fmooth Surface. Whence 1 conclude this muft be 
a different Species. However what the ingenious 
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