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Singular specimen of Fungi. 
a Mouseskin Byssus, Byssus septiaa, (marked ccc) spread its line 
white foliage up and down the post, and along the marble, in various 
directions ; and Fungi, as common Mushrooms, Agdricm campcstris, 
(dd) with deep flesh-coloured gills; and Boletus t&nrex, (e) also 
grew out of the post, as shewn in the plate, [flg.41)] which was drawn 
October 13th, 1777, by White Watson. 
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The fissures in the rock being always moist, and the atmosphei ic 
air excluded, the water issuing in small quantities down the post, 
and causing tlu^ wet rot, gave rise to these Fungi, which are said to 
be “jdants that live without air.’' 
It is supposed that the different kinds of Fungi which ap])ear upon 
decaying timber, are produced by the remaining powers of life in tlu‘ 
saj) of the unseasoned wood; and that the same kind of living organi- 
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