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JSlature, Mode of Growth^ and Specific Dif* 
thiBlon of the zvholefome Species from the per~ 
nklous Kinds, 
THE Mufliroom is a fungous plant, 
without appearance of leaves, flowers, or feed, 
a fpecies of the Genus Jgaricus, fubjed; to the 
botanic clafs Cryptogamla Fungi, comprehen- 
ding fungous plants, which have concealed, 
or doubtful genital organs, and without vifible 
flower or feed ; thereby belonging ,-to the 
family of imperfedt vegetables ; a numerous 
train of which are of this fungous tribe. They 
confift of different genera, and numerous fpe- 
cies and varieties, many of them of a poifon- 
ous, or at lead: of a fufpicious nature. One 
fpecies only merits cultivation as a wholefome 
efculent, which is that under conflderatlon. 
Agaricus Campejlris, Field Agaric, or Com- 
mon Mufliroom, rifes from the ground in its 
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