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had them to Bowden ; which whether 

 it be the fame place as the former, I am 

 not certain, nor do I find any mention 

 made in any of our EngUJh Herbalsy of 

 them. 



The manner of finding them out in 

 Ital)'y as Mr. Ray, in his Htftory ofTlants^ 

 lib. z. p,\\i. as well as others that have 

 travelled in thofe countries, tell us, is 

 to tie a firing to the hinder leg of a 

 fwine, which will fmell them out, and 

 dig them up with his fnout. And I have 

 been informed by a gentleman (how true 

 it is I cannot tell) that the prefent king 

 of Sardinia has a kind of dogs that do 

 as it were fet them, and by making of 

 a full flop give notice where they are to 

 be digg'd for. In Italy they fry them 

 with oil and vinegar, by which means 

 they are very grateful to the tafte, as 

 Menzeliits relates. He adds, that there 

 is a kind of them that he obfcrv'd near 

 Furjlenwaldy that rcfembled the teflicu- 

 hr parts of a man, Jcroto denudatOy as 

 he terms it. This, as well as the other 

 kind, are very effeftive in venereal em- 

 braces. \ 



It is pity that we can t as yet find 

 out the method of propagating thefe fo 



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