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FORTY-FOUR COPPER-PLATES;
O N W H I C H A R E E N G R A V E D
FIFTY-ONE SPECIES of AGARICS:
Wherein their varieties, and various appearances in the different stages of growth, are faithfully exhibited
in more than
T W O H U N D R E D F I G U R E S,
Copied with great care from the plants, when newly gathered and in a state of perfection.
With a particular description of each species, in all its stages,
From the first appearance to the utter decay of the plant; with the time when they were gathered; the soil
and situation in which they grew; their duration; and the particular places
mentioned, where all the new or rare species were found.
The whole being a plain recital of F A C T S, the result of more than twenty years observation.
I N T H R E E V O L U M E S.
By J A M E S B O L T O N,
Member of the Natural History Society, at E D I N B U R G H.
V O L. I.
N A T U R A S E M P E R E A D E M.
Latin: "Nature is always the same."
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD IN HALIFAX BY HIM, AND BY J. MILNER,
BOOKSELLER; BY B. WHITE AND SON, IN LONDON; BY THE BOOKSELLERS OF OXFORD,
CAMBRIDGE, YORK, EDINBURGH; AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.
M,DCC,LXXXVIII.