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PRODUCTION OF 



kingdoms. The odour of a fungus, when burni 



of burnino" feath 



Sect. XVII. 2. 5. 



approaches to that 



o 



d all of them putrefy Uke animal flefh ; fom 



of them as the phallus impud 



ftink-horn, emits fuch a putrid 



fcent, as it grows, as to attrad innumerable flefh-flies to depofit th 



fpaw 



And thofe mufhrooms, which are cooked 



tables, as well as the catchup, made by preferving their juices in fait 

 and water, pofTefs an animal flavour. Of this laft circumflance I was 

 told a remarkable inftance, where a cook-maid in a family of invalids, 

 who frequently wanted weak broth, perpetually deceived them by a 



catchup with thin gruel, and 



mixture of a fmall quantity of good 



with only the addition of fhred leaves of parfley, and a little fait 

 Another thing in which the fungufes difFer from vegetables, c 



growing perfedly well without light, which is fo 



fifts 



th 



celTary to the health of vegetables 



r 



The fcarlet folds beneath th 



head of the common efculent mufhroom are fo like the gills of flfh 



that they have in our language obtained the fame name 

 folds beneath the hat of th 



Thefe 



o 



the pores beneath the bol 



and the thorny appearance beneath the hydnum, and the net-lik 



pores of phallus 



th 



different means of cxpofing a larger furface 



and therefore undoubtedly conft 



the lungs 



of th 



e 



fungufes, as leaves conftitute thofe of vegetables, and not th 

 of reprodu6lion, as fome have fuppofed. 



The chemical analogy, which exifls between 



^^ 



veen fome of the mufli 

 room tribe and animal 



their conducing power of what he terms the galvanic fluid, which I 



matters, led Van Humboldt to inveftig 



O 



bel 



be Amply a minute (hock of the elefl 



fluid 



and h 



found, that morels and thofe fu 



emit a cad 



animal fmell 



Id 



hich 



ftate of putrefadl 



imal fubftances. Annals of Medicine for 



qually good conductors 



98, Edinb. Van Hum 



rtwiincii luuuances. iinnajs or Medicine tor 1790, tLdinb. Van . 

 boldt afl:erts further, that by chemical analyfis they approach 



k 



wife to 



ph 



mimal fubflanc 

 He alfo afl'erts. 



as they contain much 



d pho{ 



that he converted morels into fat by 



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