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danger, but more will intoxicate, and bring 

 on a delirium. The Ruffians, however, are 

 bold enough to eat thefe, and almoft every 

 other kind of fungus. Perhaps they are 

 pleafed with their inebriating quality ; for in 

 the natural hiftory of Kamtfchatka, (p. 208, 

 209) we are told that the inhabitants prepare 

 a liquor from an infufion of this agaric and 

 the epilobium anguftifolium, which taken 

 in a fmall quantity exhilarates the fpirits, but 

 in a larger dofe brings on a trembling of the 

 nerves, intoxication, delirium, and mad- 

 nefs *. 



♦ Flor. Scot. vol. ii. p. loio. 



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