An History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax (Vols 1-2)

As this work may possibly fall into the hands of some who are not botanists, and yet may have a natural desire to inform themselves of enough theory to enable them, through practice, to alleviate the melancholy of an amusing walk, or to pass a few hours of rural retirement agreeably; or whose line of conversation, or whose situation in the country, may not afford them an opportunity of receiving such instructions as might tend to improve—or even awaken—a talent given them by nature for an amusement so rational, so pleasing, and so conducive to the health of the body and the recreation of the mind: to these, it will not be unacceptable to be informed of the generic characters Generic characters: the defining physical features shared by all members of a specific genus. of the plants here treated of, so as to enable them, at the sight of a specimen, to determine at once to what genus or family it belongs.