,OF MUSHROOMS. 



ALL thefe examples make it evident 

 : mnfhrooms may be produced without 

 ipawn being planted, and that they grow 

 in places where there never vvere any be- 

 fore, as all mufl allow. 



BY what means this plant (if it is pro- 

 per to call it a plant) grows in fuch places 

 I do not pretend to demonftrate ; it is cer- 

 tain no plants grow without feed : there 

 is no new creation. 



; 



THE feeds of mum rooms being fo very 

 light, it is not improbable hut that in the 

 fields where mufhrooms grow it is carried 

 over the whole ground, and lodged in 

 every little hole and crevice, where it grows 

 as foon as it meets, with proper materials. 

 The reafon why mufhrooms do not grow 

 in all the places where fuch fluff lies is, 

 becaufe it is not in proper order, being too 

 wet or too dry, or the feafon fo cold that 

 the feeds cannot vegetate. 



IT may have been imagined long before 



this, 



