FUN 
lala eee analogous to what are proper to fuch or- 
like many of.his predeceffors, reckons 
tan co. of fexual organs, or any thing analogous to 
fiamina and pifiilla ; but this opinion is altogether theoreti- 
‘eal, like the aflertion of Juffiew, which denies them cotyle- 
dons. Neither has-been proved, nor is either of any prac- 
tical ufe, for the purpofes of {yitematical arrangement. 
Some have ye Fungi to be of an animal nature, becaufe 
of their foetid {cent in decay, and becaufe they are occa- 
fionally the hie : infects, which were fuppofed to 
an idea fcarce worthy of 
form them as polypes corals, 
efutation. ‘The fuppo ofit ition hg aae ed ome, of their 
originating from the tranfmuted fap of corrupted wood, 18 
ually futile. They in “tact as diftint in genus and 
fpecies as any other vegetables, and propagate themfelves 
as regularly, though, like other plants, fubje€t to va- 
rieties. 
Dry ander Ty Scheffer, and Hedwig, have afferted their 
the lat- 
ter being the . 
He divides thent ie two principal fections. 1. pe 
bearing their feeds internally, like the Lycoperdon, or Puff- 
ball; and 2. Gymnocarpi, whofe feeds are imbedded in an 
appropriate, dilated, expofed ay called. hymenium, of 
whi ch the common eatable mufhroom, Agaricus pratenfis, 
this genus, Ao, the Aymenium con- 
~— of pale plates, termed gills. 
?UNGI a eitti, See PHALLUus. 
JINGIFER Laris, the mufbroom- Bearing , fone, a name 
given by aoe to a coarfe ftone found in Italy, and many 
other places, lying near the furface of the earth, which they 
— 
fay will at any time produce mufhrooms, on being moiftened 
with warm wate 
F ITH, in Natural Hiffory, aname given by authors 
toa foecies of fea-coral, _often ound adhering to fea-fhells, 
fi 
they are ufually immer 
The more frequent of thefe are of a conic fhape ; 
they are flatted and difcoid, ‘and ufvally ftriated longitudi- 
nally ; they fometimes.are found ¢ in their foffil fate oe 
to fhells or corals, but more ufually feparate. To this, and 
Lu 
peembling the eils of ; and to another, 
dago, fro Secor figure. Mr. William Martin, 
rf Ortlines, oa p- 83.) alate writer, who feems to have 
ftudied the fubje&t of extraneous. fofiils or reliquia, as he 
calls them, with the beit effect, confiders the exiftence of 
petrified fungi as extremely doubt ul, and refers fuch fpeci- 
‘meng as he has examined to the nen of coralline bodies, to 
awhich they feem evidently to ; 
ve a ne of Mati di ail as which fe 
ee 
See Ronee CLAVARIA, Het- 
S Fresu, is a fpongeous excrefcence, or 
, par 
(as we popularly call ae proud fle ee frequently growing on. 
e Funeus. 
the lips of wounds, u 
UNGOUS Timon 
F >in eligi i a name giv en by Dr. Lifter. to 
ablackifh bituminou ound in fome of the mines 
of Der erbyfhire, It fay ts ale fides of the, fiffure es of 
FUN 
rocks, and lies in feams of the ftrata. 
colour, and 
It i is of a. blackith 
and ‘in thefe there are feveral lumps of pure 
men in many parts. This is inflammable like refin. It is 
light, but breaks finer, and. fhines like good aloes when 
_ frefh broken, but that it is alittle darker coloured, and has 
fome tinge of purple in it. In fome pieces the purple is 
wanting, and there is a green in the place of it. On being 
diftilled, it ele: firft a limpid and infipid. water, then a 
whitifh water of a fharp tafte, and finally a yellow and clear 
oil, m refembling oll “ apa but the procefs affords 
no volatile me in the nec receiver, in which it dif. 
fers from amber when ore in the fame manner. Phii. 
Tranf. N’ 
Fuscus, i in ia Hiflory. See Fuxc1, Maprepora, 
and Musur 
Funcus, in on fignifies a fpongy excrefcence, which 
is generally compofed of oS high, flabby, fometimes 
irm, granulations, and is apt to bleed from flight caufes, 
being ees with various a of ar in diffore cafes 
and under different circumftances. e difeafe confiits 
f a 5 vafcular its na- 
e to becon 
the part of the furgeon. 
ive the reader an adequate idea of the mifery and dreadful 
lufferings ue certain: fungous difeafes bring upon man- 
kind. thefe excrefcences, it is true, are only at- 
tended with Flight j ee ee occafional pain 5 but 
others, eae being a 
parth et ae repeated ee and 
by occafioning lofs of reit, fever, &c. Som a ner aie 
eafes affume a malignant ent becoming cancerous, or, 
(if poffible) worfe than a cancer, fo that fhould they be too 
extenfive for extirpation, the confequences mutt be fatal. 
In the article 
mater, makes 1 
of the tables of the fkull, lifts up the ig te 
ulcerates the fkin fo as to protrude at fom 
eae quite free from every kind o corer. Such fwvell. 
s have’ fometimes been fuccefsfully deftroyed ; but, too 
fr eal, they affect the brain underneath and prove fatal. 
e reader, however, is epaice or an account of this fub- 
ject to an aay Wasnt cle 
A mi and lefs alarming en of fungus is feen in’ 
fuch ee ae as the ficus, condyloma, ke. which ‘fre. 
quently occur about the anus, perinzum, arid pu a. The 
manner of curirig thefe difeafes we have defeibed, under the 
head of ExcrescEeNce. 
Fungous excrefcences are riot confined to any par-. 
ticular parts or ftructures; they may oe in almoft 
any fituation in the body. However, there are certain 
cireumftances which are particularly ofteri attended w rith the . 
r 
fae Of the fury rgeons 4 affee s the breiny. pe a oe the 
patient. After cutting out: a:circitlar piece of the “{kull- 
with a-trephine, a expofing. the-dura- matery it fonietimes | 
happens 
