CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. loil 



part extended from the rim to the ftalk, feme 

 few only half way. In decay they turn to a 

 yellowifh brown color. 



It varies fometimes with a Pileus deflitute of 

 warts. See Schxf. fung. tab. 28. 



It is of an acrid and deleterious quality. Halkr 

 relates, that fix perfons of Lithuania in Poland 

 perifh'd at one time by eating it •, and that in 

 Kamtfchatka it had driven others raving mad. 

 Three or four of thefe Agarics may be eaten 

 without danger, but ten will intoxicate or 

 bring on a delirium. The Ruffians however 

 are bold enough to eat thefe, and almoft every 

 other fpecies of Fungus. Perhaps they are 

 pleas'd with its inebriating quality, for in the 

 Natural Hijlcry of Kamtfchatka^ (p. 208, 209.) 

 we are told that the inhabitants prepare a liquor 

 from an infufion of this Agaric and the runners 

 of the Epilohium ongujlifolium^ which taken in a 

 fmall quantity exhilarates the fpirits, but in a 

 larger dofe brings on a trembling of the nerves 

 intoxication, delirium, and melancholy. 



Linnteus informs us that flies are kill'd, or at leaft 

 ftupified, by an infufion of this Fungus in 

 milk ; and that the exprefs'd juice of it anointed 

 on bedfte ds, and other places infefted, efiec- 

 tually dertroys bugs. 



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