SlSCULENl* IFUKCI OF GREAT BRITAIN, 545^ 
a man moderately intoxicated to-day, will by the next 
morning have slept himself sober ; but (as is the custom) 
by taking a tea-cup of his urine, be more powerfully in- 
toxicated than he was the preceding day by the fungus. 
It is therefore not uncommon for confirmed drunkards to 
preserve their urine as a precious liquor, against a scarcity 
of the fungus. This intoxicating property of the urine is 
capable of being propagated ; for every one who partakes 
of it has his urine similarly affected. Thus, with a very 
few AmaniteK, a party of drunkards may keep up their de- 
bauch for a week. Dr Langsdorf mentions, that by 
means of the second person taking the urine of the first, 
the third that of the second, and so on, the intoxication 
may be propagated through five individuals. 
Nat. Ord. GASTROMYCI, Link., Grev, 
(Fungi sarcocarpi, Pers.) 
Tuber. 
1. T. cibarium, subrotundum, nigrescent, valde verru- 
cosum. 
T. cibarium, Bull Champ, p. 74, t. SBG.-^Sibth. Fl. 
Oxon. p. 398.--P^r*. Syn. Fung. p. 126.— PFiif^. Bot. 
Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. 4f^2,-^Sow. Fung. t. 309.— -i>^ 
Cand. Fl. Fran^. v. % p. 278. Ejusd. Syn. p. 58.— 
Propriet. Med. des Plantes^ p. 322. — Pers. Champ, 
earnest, p. 262. — HooJc. Fl Scot pt. 2. p. 10. — Gray's 
Nat. Arr. v. 1. p. 592, 
Tuber gulosorum, Wigg Fl Holsaf, p. 109. 
