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ohferved, at the fame Time, feveral Seeds ad¬ 
hering to the tranfparent Foot-Stalks which 
fupported the Heads, and many fcattered on 
the Glafs Plate whereon the Sub fiance was 
placed for View ; whereby he had an Op¬ 
portunity of feeing many diflindt Seeds, near¬ 
ly of an oval Form* but feveral Times larger 
than the Seeds of common Mujhrooms, even 
when feen with the fecond Magnifier, and 
the latter with the firfl.—He fays, he has of¬ 
ten viewed the Heads of a fmall Kind of 
coriaceous Fungus of about 4 Inch Diame¬ 
ter, and always found the Seeds on their 
Gills much larger than thofe of any other 
Mufhroom he had examined, tho’ rather lefs 
than thofe this unregarded Plant produces. 
He fent with this Account a Piece of Wood 
with the Mouldinefs thereon, and alfo fome 
of it on a Slip of Glafs : both which I exa¬ 
mined carefully to determine the Bignefs of 
the Heads and their Seeds : and viewing the 
Spherical Heads of the middle Size, (fome 
being larger and others fmaller) I found, 
(according to my Micrometer ) that 3 of them 
took up the Side of a Square, 70 of which 
Squares made an Inch in Length; confe- 
quently thrice 70, or 210 of thefe Fungi, 
make a Line of one Inch: or, in other 
Words, the Diameter of thefe fungous Bodies 
is, at a Medium, the 210th Part of an Inch. 
The Seeds are oval ; and I find, by the 
fame Micrometer, that 1 o of them laid by one 
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