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AGAR'ICUS. Pileus with gills underneath, of a different sub¬ 
stance from the rest of the plant. 
FISTULFNA. Pileus with separate tubes underneath : Seeds 
in the tubes. 
BOLETUS. Pi/eus with united tubes underneath : Seeds in 
the tubes. 
HYD'NUM. Pileus with solid cylinders underneath: Seeds on 
the cylinders. 
HELVEI/LA. Pileus on a stem, smooth underneath: Seeds 
on the under surface. 
AURICULA'RIA. Flat, membranous, attached when young 
by the whole under surface : Seeds on the upper surface, 
which becomes reversed as it attains maturity. 
( 2 ) Seeds on the upper surface . 
PEZI'ZA. Cup-shaped or concave: Seeds discharged with 
elastic force from the upper surface only. 
NIDULA'RIA. Leathery, sessile, bell-shaped: Capsules large, 
flat, attached to pedicles at the bottom of the bell. 
PHAL'LUS. Stem supporting a cellular head: Seeds in the 
cells. 
( 3 ) Seeds on every part of the surface. 
CLAVA'RIA. Oblong, upright, club-shaped : Seeds emitted 
from every part of its surface. 
tinuing to present an infinite diversity of structure and form, even to the verge of frost 
and snow. So that to the intelligent observer, no season throughout the vicissitudes of 
our variable climate, is altogether destitute of attraction. Though the varied tribes of 
Fungi, (in which the worm alone would seem to luxuriate,) too often pass unnoticed, the 
more intimately we cultivate their acquaintance, the more obvious will appear their claim 
to our regard, by the disclosure of novelties which cannot be altogether reconciled by 
analogy with their phenogamous brethren. (Vid. vol. i. p. 336, et seq ) However 
obscure, on a superficial view, the evanescent vegetables may seem to be, no created thing 
should be deemed either too high or too low for the consideration of the philosophic mind ; 
and such will soon become convinced, that neither admirable adaptation, contrivance, nor 
even beauty, are limited to the more ostensible objects. For, as in the animal kingdom 
are “ things creeping innumerable,” from the great leviathan that taketh his pastime in the 
depths of ocean, to the animalcule, to which a single drop of liquid is a sea 1 so in the 
vegetable kingdom, whether we direct our attention to the surprising discoveries of the 
lynx-eyed micrologist, actually imperceptible to the naked eye, and appertaining to objects 
of ephemeral duration ; or ascending in the scale of existence from these tenants of a day, 
to the stupendous Banian tree, comparatively coeval with the world itself, whose um¬ 
brageous canopy overshadowed the Gymnosophistsof old, beneath which the Brahmins yet 
find a fane, and amid whose cool recesses and inviting vistas thousands of Hindoos simul¬ 
taneously pay divine honours; in whichever direction we contemplate the wonders of 
nature, man, vain and presumptuous only in ignorance, cannot fail to recognize the Divine 
hand, and devoutly to admit that truly “ in wisdom they are and were created.” E.) 
