2, 



s 



) 



that 



tile 

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thei 



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at our 

 n fait 



I 



Was 



1 by 



5 



a 



) and 

 lit. 



, con- 



h the 

 ffifn, 

 rhefe 

 )letu3, 



=t-like 

 urface 

 of the 



organs 



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Sect. XVII. 2.5. 



ROOTS AND BARKS. 



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of fulphuric acid diluted with water, which experiment he thinks is 

 analogous to that of Gibbes, and of the burying ground of the Inno- 

 cents, where fat was formed from mufcular flefh. Journal de Phy- 



fique, Vol. IV. p. 67. 



The fungi would hence appear to be animals without locomotion, 

 whofe ladeal veflels are inferted into'the earth, like thofe of vege- 

 tables ; but whofe gills or lungs are covered from the light, like 

 thofe of animals, but expofed to the open air like the leaves or lungs 

 of vegetables. Another curious occurrence, which feems to affociate 

 them with animals, if the truth can be depended upon, is thatfome 



the common mufhroom is faid 



as mentioned below : 



of them are of animal origin ; as 



tainly to be procured from horfe-dung 



may therefore have its embryon or early ftate in the inteftines of 



mals, and its maturer ftate in the foil or atmofpl 



and 



hk 



oth 



feds, as the bot-fly, and perhaps the tape-worm, and afcarides 

 this production of muflirooms is otherwile contrary to all known 



as 



logy 



Other fungi are found on the decayed parts of pecu 



*-^ 



tables, from which they feem to 

 worms in the inteflines of animals, 



take their origin. 



i like 

 the agaric of the oak, of the 



perhap 



beech 



f the eld 



the boletus of the beech, and of the willow 



and many others mentioned by L 



uffle. srrows 



d 



O o 



d w 



The lycoperdon tuber, or ti 

 light, never rifing into day ; and is propagated, I fuppofe, by only a 

 paternal or lateral progeny, like the polypus of our ditches, and not 

 by fexual connexion, or feminal progeny. The truffle is hunted by 

 dogs probably from its poffeffing fomewhat of an animal fcent, like 



upon the ground, by which they hunt 



left 



the perfpirable effluvia 



their game or difcover the foot of their mafter 



The phallus efc 



morel, and the 



agaricus 



9 



muffl 



of 



kinds, will grow without light 



beds covered 



ft 



d are alfo, I fuppofe, propagated by a paternal 



progeny only, and not by a fexual or feminal 



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