CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. loii 



part extended from the rim to the ftalk, fome 

 few only half way. In decay they turn to a 

 yellowifh brown color. 



It varies fometimes v/ith a Pileus deflitute of 

 warts. See Scha-f.fung. tab. 28. 



It is of an acrid and deleterious quality. Haller 

 relates, that fix perfons of Lithuania in Poland 

 perifh'd at one time by eating it ; and that in 

 Kamtfchatka it had driven others raving mad. 

 Three or four of thefe Agarics may be eaten 

 without danger, but ten will intoxicate or 

 bring on a delirium. The Ruffians however 

 are bold enough to eat thefe, and almoft every 

 other fpecies of Fungus. Perhaps they are 

 pleas'd with its inebriating quality, for in the 

 Natural Hijicry of Kamtfchatka^ (p. 208, 209.) 

 we are told that the inhabitants prepare a liquor 

 from an infufion of this Agaric and the runners 

 of the Epilobium angufiifoUum, which taken in a 

 fmall quantity exhilarates the fpirits, but in a 

 larger dofe brings en a trembling of the nerves 

 intoxication, delirium., and melancholy. 



Linnaeus informs us that flies are kill'd, or at lead 

 flupified, by an infufion of this Fungus in 

 milk; and that the exprefs'd juice of it anointed 

 on bedlle ds, and other places infefi:ed, effec- 

 tually deftn.ys bugs. 



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