The TraEiical Kitchen Gardiner, 



nus and ago^ importing a kind of ma- 

 lignancy that is in thole that arc un- 

 eatable, (being the true boletus of the 

 Rofnans) by which many have been poi- 

 fon'd and brought to their funuSy or fu- 

 neral pile ; amongft which was the em- 

 peror Claudius himfelf, who, as Sueto- 

 nius tells us, was a great lover of them, 

 but by the management of the famous 

 Agrippina^ in order to make way for 

 Nero to the throne, was poilbn'd by them, 

 of wiaich Juvenal has it, Sat. 6. 



=- — Tremulumque caput defcendere jujjit 

 In c(elum 



And Kircher^ in his treatife ^e pefle, as 

 the aforefaid Mr. Ray obferves, fays of 

 them, that whoever eats them ought al- 

 ways to be aware of its deadly qualities, 

 and as it were prepar'd for tiieir latter 

 end 5 let me give it in his own words, 

 fungus qualifcunque Jit femper malignus, 

 femper exitialium qualitatum apparatu 

 inftruBus, crc. 



But notwithftanding the fevere in- 

 vedlives the authors aforementioned (and 

 before them Vliny and others) have made 

 againft them, there are fome of thefe 



fpecies 



