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line cryftallizations, without the confideration and prefeienté of the nd: 
ture and reafon of a Globular form, and as difficult to explicate this cons 
figuration of Mufhroms, without the previous confideration of the forn 
of Salts fo will the enquiry into the forms of Vegetables be no lefs, if 
not much more difficult, without the fore-knowledge of the forms of 
Muthroms, thefe feveral Enquiries having no lef dependance one up- 
onanother then any {elect number of Propofitions in Mathematical Blea 
mentsmay be made to have. z | 
Nor do imagine that the fkips from the one to another will be found 
very great, if beginning from fluidity, or body without any form, we 
defcend gradually,till we arrive at the higheft form of a bruite Animal's 
Soul, making the {teps or foundations of oit Enquity, Fluidity, orbiens 
lation, Fixation, Angulization, or Cryftallization Germination ov Bbulfia 
tion, Vegetation ,Plantanimation, Animation, Senfation, Imagination. 
Now, that we may the better proceed in our Enquiry, It will be re- 
quifite to confider : : eS 
Firft, that Mould and Mufhroms require no feminal property, but thé 
former may be produc’d at any time from any kind of purifying Animal, 
_ or Vegetable Subftance,as Fleth,cxc. kept moift and warm,and the latter, 
if what Atathzolwe relates be true, of making them: by Art, are as much 
within our command, of which Matter take the Epitemie which Mr, 
Parkinfow has deliver'd in his Herbal, in his Chapter of Iumfhroms, becaufe 
Thave not Azathiolvs now by me: Unto thefe Mtnforoms (faith he) may 
alfo be adjoyn'd thofe which are made of Art (whereof Mathiolus wakes mens 
tion) that grow naturally among certain ftones in Naples, and that the 
frones being digg’d up, and carried to Rome, aid ather places, where they 
Set them in their Wine Cellars, covering them with a litile Earth,and fprinks | 
ling a little warm water thereon, would within four days produce Mufhroms 
fit to be eaten, at what time one will: As alfo that Mufhroms may be made 
40 grow at the foot of a wilde Poplar Tree, within four days afier, swarm 
water wherein fome leaves have been difole'd frall be pout'd into the Root 
(which muft be fit) and the flock above ground. 
Next, that as Muthroms may be generated without feed, {0 does it 
Not appear that they have any fuch thing as feed in any part of them for 
having confidered feveral kinds of them; I could never find any thing in 
them that could with any ptobability ghefs to be the {eed of it, fo that 
It does not as yet appear (that I know of ) that Mufhroms may be ges 
herated froma feed, Diedloey rather feem to depend merely upoh a cons 
venient conftitution of the matter baa cp eng they are made; and a 
Concurrence of either natural or artificial heat 
mS Thirdly,that by feveral bodies (as Salts and Metals both in Water and 
inthe air, and by feveral kirids of fublimations in the Air) aCtuated and 
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