f. . 



**• 



5. 



:itn 



are 



horfe. 



n 



at 



appear 



broke 



bed of 



*s bark 



:aniier*s 

 • with 



a 



ly with 

 5 found 

 It is re- 

 ledy on 



,dion of 

 b walks, 

 , confifts 



Of this I 



ryons 

 was not 



Rafpe, 

 ngaia is ^ 



lone 



hills 



r 



in 



oduce 

 id cellai" 



1 



wing to 3 



tiu 



(hroo^ 

 (esiiJ 



hou 



lace 

 that 



p 

 r 



Sect. XVII. 2. 5 



that had the fame quality, which 

 mint of Flore 



ROOTS AND BARKS 



489 



I 



fed by Mr,' Fabriaiii in the 



From th 



account the mufhroom-ftone appear 



to 



porous tupha, like that with which the houfe 



ifift of a 

 Matlock 



B 



ad which has been depofited from the w 

 has fince'analyfed one of thefe ftone 



But 



but does not mention 



how 



had been ufed for the vegetation of mufluooms, whkh 



Mr. Gadd 



mi-ht in°<'reat meafure affed the refults of his analyfi 



::'rhe Stockholm Tranfaaion. fays, that this P^et ra funga. <Iercnbe^d 



flrft by Ferber confifts of forty-fwe 



forty-fi 



hundredth parts of 



filiceous earth 



d twenty of a calx of iron, with a little magnefu 



d vegetable alkali. Analytic. Review, D 



I 



/ 



i::S. country the cellars would^not be ^ciently warn^o^p^ 

 duce mufhrooms at any feafon of the year 

 ftone is of calcareous origin according' to Ferber 



but as- this mufhroom 



{hews, th 



th is friendly to the growth of muairoom 



d a fimi 



porous ftone from 



th 



ty of Matlock Bath might probably be 



ermeated in a f.mllar t^anner with the -ts of then. 



as a conve- 



pofitory of them to be railed Into life occafionally by warmth 



"somfof'the fongi are believed to poffefs an intoxicating qoality, 

 „d aTeeaten for th^t p.rpofe by the peafants in Siberia. One fungus 



f the fpecies agaricus mufcarum eaten raw 



deco£lion of 



f them 



produces intoxication for twelve or fixteen h 



Hift. of 



Ruffia, Vol. I. Nichols, 178 

 fungus found on birch 



The Oftiachs alfo blifter the Ikin by 

 nd ufe the officinal agaric for foap. 



Ohr fungi poffefs a juice fo acrid in their raw ftate as ,mmed,a ely 

 I blifter the tongue, L 1 once experienced on taftmg a m.nute drop 

 of the juice of a large muAroom, which on breaku,g the hat poured 

 out a yellow juice, which became purple or blue >n a few feconds of 



time on its bein 



P 



fed to th 



air ; 



hich I believed to be th 



fun<^usdeliciofusof Linneus; the acrimony of which might 



a 



3R 



thelefs 



/ 



