Some Remarks Occasioned by the Precedeing Paper, Addressed to the Royal Society by Mr.William Watson, Apothecary, and F. R. S.Author(s): William WatsonSource: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 42 (1742 - 1743), pp. 599-601Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/104220 .

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VIIT Sozge Remarks occ4fosecZ U the precede ing Paper, addre.fed to tbe ROYAI. SOS ClXTY by Mr. William wZatrOtl, iftothectys and F.R.S.

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I 743 1 at your laLt Mcctinr laid before you an ingenious Account, and nzesva you, by the Afl10- allce of a M.icroScope, the Seeds of Tro Sorts of

BN1YS'Sx xvhicll srere imagined, by mally prefent) to llave been ulldilicoscled bcfore; I hopc I lEall not bc thought td detrad?c from that learned GentlemanJs Merit) if I mention the filP[ ObServer of thofe -nzintlte Bodies, althougll till now they never llavcX to my K11OW1CdgC) been 1Eesvn ;n England: ForX 11oxvever grCat 1n)T Z21l iS tO giVC the HOnOLlr 05 AnY D;fCOVCRY tO 1Y ONVn COL111CrSnACn) NCt CAndOi1r EV;II NOt Per mit mC tO ^,iNC it TI 1Cm tO thC PrC;LIdiCC Of thOC OF anOther NGt;OS1. It \v2S 0 tI1C 1AtC Sigr AMickneD,, PrOfCINOr Of r3OtAnY At FlorenreX that the \Mol ld OW2S theD;fCOVCrY OftL1eSCCdS Of AWILlrNrOO11RSJ aS NSCII

as rlle lElonvers and Sccds of tllc sarious Species of: Lichen or Liserwort: Hc rlct only faw witEl lais Gl..Res, but raifed frorl] tllcir Seed>> lua1ly Ikilads of Muthrooms, as ulay bc [ectl fiorz lais Expetitncllts irl ragt I 3 S of llis incomparablc Work intitllled, No*-va

plantarz4Zz Gf;*nera, printcd at flaresce ill tlle Year 1729. Elc conIlantly obfcrved tlle Sceds prodllcc tilC

fan e Spccics, as in tlle more perfeft Plants.

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[ 6oo ) A very worthy and learned Member of this So-

CIETY, Dr. Haller, Profcffior of PllyElc, Botany, Wa in the Univerfity of lGottingen, ill his excellent Work publifted laLt Year, intieuled, Enameratio Sletho dira Stirpigm hJeZvietij tells us, when treatirlg of }'gngas's, Page 34. 'tIlat tlacir Seeds are produced i tile Lwina? of their tconcave Side; as he has mo[t evidently lSeen in the 3sth, sotil) 73d, g3d, and Io7ti Species mentioned in his Work; whicLl Sceds are by Nature, wllen ripe, {haken from tbc Platlts) and, being rown, propagate tlleir Species. He likewife men- tions, tllat the Secds of different Mu[hrooms vary in their Colour, fome being blue, others green, s^?luite,

That Ornament of this SOCIETY) the late Mr. Ray; indeed, mentions a Furggs, dircovered by his Friend aV1r. Soody, whicll 11e callsX in his Hiflory of Plan£s, Vol. 111. Page 2 x . Fgaggs Jqeminifer externe /?riatgs; alldltonfeur roarnefort, in his 17zJ/itatisnes Rei Her- 6aris, Page 560. takes notice of another Spccies of this Tribe} svlaicll 11e calls Fangoides in0wndi6aZi- formeJe7MwineftM. Monfieur hillant, in Pa^,e S7. Ot- his Boranisurv PariNenJee, bisZes a DeScription and figurcs of ttle Seeds of the;c Two llinds. His Words are to this Purport, whcn trannated from the Frenah. iv Witlain tlle Cavi£y, rays he, ofthefe Plants, towards ss the Bottom} are containcd many Seeds lacaped one fs 1lpon atlother, cut upon thcir fuperior SurEace 4 fomcwilat like aTrian^,le) broad undelneatll, wlaere 4 tlley are collncEtzd to a Iittle Tendolz) and are zc nvhitith.') NotsvithRanding the higll\7eneration I Ilase for tlze Opiziolas of tlucfie able Botanifts, I atn tatisficd elle Parts of there TNYO Plants, SO imagined7

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C60t ] are noe tlleir Seeds, lDut ratller ttleir SuckersX Sta- lones; wllich; ilu moft others of thts Tribc, at. .^Oh duced from the Root; but from both thefe, as irs 1X<+-1y of tile Kinds of Lichen, and in the (J9entaria blwlbifera, arc prodllccd fronz other Parts of tllc Plant. I callnot help obrcrving, tllat in almofl: atl llants, nvllofc Seeds arc ploduced fparingly, or arc difficult to be rantedX Nature abundntly makes up tllat Deficiency by thc great Increafe of tI<eir ROOtS, vllereby tileir Species may eafily be propagated; as is manifelt in Mulhrooms} Potatoes, Crocuss) (-Jolden- rods, Starworts, and aboveNall in the Corona Solis,flore parvo, tv6ero radre of M. to?wrnefort, vul^,arlt cal led yer?W/>alem Artichokes, tlle Secds of whicllX from tlle Shortnefs of our Summer, hanting never as yet ripened in Eggld. 1 thall only add,¢ tllat althou",h mally Specics of Mu(hrooms are eatable, and fotlle of tllctll better flasoured than the comll5on Sort, the Gardcners only propagate tllat Sort with red (aillsX called, by way of Exccllencc, GDvanpignon, a Natlle given by the Frenah to G1l 6OrtS 0t Mtlffirooms; but fomc clcfcri > ptive Word is addcd tO tllem, wllertby tlley may lze difiingui(hcd from this. The hletEsod of propagatitlx Mulhrooms according to tllc ufiual Pradice, sviz. from their Suckers, was firPr meneioned by La Broffie, in llis Treatife iDe la Natxre des Svlattes and afterwards by Monfieur SoslrneJfort in the lWlc moirs of the jleademy of Sreenres, /Sso I7074 Page 72. I am, GENTL-EMEN7-

AMith great Re9er? Nov. l7* l743. roZXr tapJZ obedisa

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