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Beds are much better for the Table 

 than any of thofe which are gathered 

 in the Fields. 



A Bed thus managM, if the Spawn 

 takes kindly, will continue good for 

 feveral Month?, and produce great 

 Quantities of Mufhrooms ; from 

 thefe Beds, when they are deftroy'd, 

 you mould take the Spawn for a 

 frefli Supply, which may be laid up 

 in a dry Hace until the proper Sea- 

 fon of ufmg it ; which mould not 

 be fooner than five or fix Weeks, 

 that the Spawn may have time to 

 dry before it is put into the Bed, 

 other vife it will not fucceed well. 



Sometimes it happens, that Beds 

 thus made do not produce any Mufli- 

 rooms till they have lain five or fix 

 Months ; fo that thefe Beds mould 

 not be deft royed, though they mould 

 not at firfl: anfwer Expectation ; for 

 1 have frequently known thefe to 

 have produced great Quantities of 

 Mufhrooms afterwards, aad have 

 continued a long time in Perfection. 



MUSTARD. Vide Sinapi. 



MYAGRUM, Gold ofPleafure. 

 The Characlers are ; 



It bath a Flower conffing of four 

 Leaves, which are placed in form of 

 a Crofs, out of whofe Cup arifes the 

 Point a/ y which afterward becomes 

 a turbinated Fruity banking o?ie Cell t 

 in which is included one oblong Seed, 

 and two empty Cells at the Point. 

 The Species are ; 



1. Myagrum monofpermum latifo- 

 Jium. C. B. P. Broad - leav'd one- 

 grain'd Gold ofPleafure. 



2. Myagrum monofpermum minus. 

 C.B.P. . Leffer one - grained Gold 

 of Pleafure. 



3. Myagrum capitulis rotundis. 

 J. B. Round-podded Gold of Plea- 

 fure. 



Thefe are all of them annual 

 Plants, which perifh foon after their 

 Seeds are ripe. They grow wild in 



the Corn-fields in feveral Parts cf 

 Europe ; where, if the Seeds are 

 permitted to fcatter, the Plants will 

 come up, and thrive better than thofe 

 which are fown with Care ; fo fhat 

 the beft way to continue thefe Spe- 

 cies is, to let the Seeds fall in Au- 

 tumn, or to fow them foon after 

 they are ripe ; for when they are 

 fown in the Spring, they very often 

 mifcarry. When the Plants are 

 come up, they mould be clear'd from 

 Weeds ; and where they are too clofe 

 together, they mould be thinned fo 

 as to leave them about eight or ten 

 Inches afunder, which is all the Cul- 

 ture they require. 



The Oil of thefe Seeds is much 

 ufed in Germany, where the Inha- 

 bitants fow large Fields with the 

 Seed. This Oil is frequently ufed 

 in Medicine ; but the poor People 

 eat the Oil in Sal lads and Sauces, 

 and the Rich ufe the Oil for their 

 Lamps ; "but in England it is very 

 rarely ufed either way. 



MYOSOTIS, Moufe-ear Chick- 

 weed. 



The Characlers are ; 



It hath the whole Appearance of 

 Chickweed ; but the Flower is larger i 

 and the Seed-ueffel is fbap'd like an 

 Ox's Horn, gapeing attbeTop, and full 

 of fmall round Seeds. 

 The Species are ; 



1. Myosotis Hifpanica fegetum' % 

 Toum. Spanifh Corn Moufe-ear 

 Chickweed. 



2. Myosotis Alpina lattfolia. 

 Toum. Broad - leav'd Moufe - ear 

 Chickweed of the Alps. 



3. Myosotis Orient a lis perfora- 

 ta, folio lychnidis. Cor. Inf. Eaftem 

 Thorough-wax Moufe-ear Chick- 

 weed, with a Campion -leaf. 



There are feveral other Varieties 

 of this Plant, which are preferved 

 in curious Botanic Gardens; but as 

 they are of little Beauty or Ufe, I 



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