1044 CRYPTCGAMIA FUNGI. 



The magnified feeds are oval. 



It is much efteem'd at table both recent and 

 dry'd, being commonly ufed as an ingredient 

 to heighten the flavour of rao-outs. 



We are inform'd by Gleditch^ that Morels are 

 obferv'd to grow in the woods of Germany in 

 the greateft plenty, in thofe places where char- 

 coal has been made. Hence the good women 

 who colled them to fell, receiving a hint how 

 to encourage their growth, have been ac- 

 cuftom'd to make fires in certain places of the 

 woods, with heath, broom, Vaccinium, and 

 other materials, in order to obtain a more plen- 

 tiful crop. This ftrange method of cultivating 

 Morels^ being however fometimes attended with 

 dreadful confequences, large woods having 

 been fet on fire and deftroy'd by it, the ma- 

 giftrate thought fit to interpofe his authority, 

 and the practice is now interdicted. 



impudicus P, volvatus ftipitatus, pileo cellulofo. Sp. pi. 

 2. 1648. CF«»^«j virilis penis effigie. Ger.emac. 



pag, 1583. Sterheck. t. 30. A. — M, Michel, 

 gen, p. 201. /. 83. Batarra. tab. 1. f. A. 

 Oeder.Ban.t. 175. Scho^ffer. t. 196, 197, et 

 198. opt.) 

 Stinking Morek Stinkhorns. Anglls. 



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