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PRODUCTION OF 



thelefs probably be deftroyed by a hoiVmcr h 



that the common efculent mufhroom may fom 



their being not fufficiently flewed 



Sect. XVII. 2. 5. 



And it is alfo probable, 

 :times difa^ree from 



or 



by th 



fome intoxicating fuiigi along with them 



Otherwife thofe in common ufe at our tables 

 wholefome and nutritive food» approaching towards an animal 



mixture of 



ppear to fupply 



Two or three kinds are faid to be 



gilled 



ones which are eaten h 



in France befides the red 

 d it is probable many othe 



kinds of fungi might be found agreeable to the palate, and whole- 



and 



acrimony 



ibme food, if well boiled, which might deflroy th 

 efpecially thofe which when broken have (imply the agreeable fm... 

 of the red-gilled ones in common ufe ; and fome of thdfe, I fuppofe, 

 might be eaten raw without injury, as many people eat the red ^iHed 



ones 



Befides fome mufhroom 



th white gills, wh 



h 



had the grateful fcent of the common red-gilled mufhroom 



which were faid to be more del 



broken 



d 



I have known the peziza 



ricula, or ear-fungus, which was formerly an article of the materia 

 medica under the name of Jew's ear, to be ftewed and eaten in con- 

 fiderable quantity with impunity ; and was efteemed an agreeable ar- 

 --'- - the fupper-table. And as this was efteemed a pern "^ 



of fungi by Clufi 



probable, that many other fungufes mio-ht 



e 



lofe their acrimony by the heat of ftewing, and become wholefom 

 and agreeable food ; which are at prefent in difufe from their dif- 

 agreeable acrimony in their raw ftate, or from the bad charader they 

 have accidentally acquired. 



It ihould be added, that though thofe plants, which are fuppofed 

 to poflefs an alkalefcent property, and to be habie to putrefadion 



than oth 



i=> 



heat, as water-cre/Tes, cabba 



vegetables, lofe a part of their acrimony by a boil 



%.* 



yet that plants, whofe 



mony ,s of a different kind, as ginger, capficum, arum, d 



become much milder by boiling. I this morning direftcd fome ka 



not 



of 



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