f 14 ) 



Almofl: all of them, as the lafl-mentioned author 

 affirms, " are fraught with poifon f." 



The common efculent kinds, if eaten too freely, 

 frequently bring on heart-burns, ficknelTes, vo- 

 mitings, diarrhoeas, dyfenteries, and other danger- 

 ous fymptoms. It is therefore to be wilhed, that 

 they were baniflied from the table. But, if the 

 palate mufi: be indulged in thcfe treacherous gra- 

 tifications, or, as Seneca ^ calls them, this " vo- 

 luptuous poifon*', it is neceflary, that they, who 

 are employed in colledling them, fhould be ex- 

 tremely cautious, leil they fliould collect fuch as 

 are abfolutely pernicious ; which, confiderin^ to 

 whofe care this is generally committed, may, and 

 undoubtedly has, frequently happened §, 



f Fungi plerique VENENO TURGENT. Linnasi Amaen* 

 Acad. vol. I. 



X Quid tu illos boletos, voluptarium venenum, nihil 

 occulti operis judicas facere, etiamfi pra^fentanei non fu- 

 rant ? Sen. E p. 95. 



§ See Gcnilcman's Magar,ine, December, 1755 ; and Sup- 

 plement, September, 1757. 



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