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great diiktmctbetrnKt the DiJiillatU^ and 
the Emiffiof) of Effluviums or this natural Diftillation ; that really 
feparating and dividing the f ubftance intodifFerent parts s but this 
carrying out the whole entirely and un-alterd in its nature, 
VI. Of the Florver and Seed of ^^JVlujbrcms, 
The general and received opinion olBotaniJls concerning MujK 
roms is thatj which CafpAT Bauhinm in his Pinax CKpreffes in thefe 
few v^ords^viz.,Fungineq}p^!ant£^neq; radices^nef fiores^neq-^femhrn 
fmt ] fed nihil aliud quam terrayarborum^ lignorum fatridorum, alia^ 
ptitrilagimm humiditates fuperflu^. I am of the opinion, that 
they arePiants of their own kind,&have more than a chance-original 
We win inflance in that fpecies^ called Fungus porofm crajff^^ magnm 
J.B.The texture of the Gills is like a paper prickt full of pin-ho es» 
In As^guji this is very frequent under hedges, and in the middle of 
the Moors in many places of this Country. It (ecms to me (and, no 
doubt/it will to any perfon that fiiall well examine it^ that the Gills 
of this Mufiirom are the very flower and feed cjf this Plant. When it 
is ripe, the Gills here are eafily feparable from the reft of the head : 
Each feed is diftinft from other, and hath its impreffion in the head 
of theMullirom, juftasthefeedsof an Anichoak hath in the bot- 
tom of it. The bigger end of the feed is full and roundiand they are 
difpofed in a fpiral order jaft asthofe of ihe Artichoak. The like 
we do think of all other Mufliroms,however differently figured. 
And if it fhall happen to him that fl3all fow them, that thefe will 
not produce their kind,but be fteril ; it is no ftrange thing amongft 
Plants,there being whole genus's of Plants that come upiand flower, 
and feed, and yet their feed was never known to produce Plants of 
their kind,being naturally fteril^and a volatilduft^as al the Orchides 
Qt Bee-florvers. 
We iliall not here omit to tell yoii further concerning this MuOi- 
rom, that, when frelh gather'd, it is of a buff-colour infide outfide ; 
and yet, cut through the middle, it will in a moment change from a 
pale-yellow toa deep purp e or blew, and ftain linnen according- 
ly. Adropofthe juyce,}eifurely fqneezedooc,wiIl change,ho!ding 
it betwixt your eye and the light,, through all the colours of the 
Rainbow, in the very time of its falling, and fix in a purple, as it 
doth in the fpringlug out of its veins. 
VII.O/ the fpeedy vitrifying of the vpholeMy of Antimony by Cawk, 
The feveral vitrifications of Anfmmy are either opaque or tranA 
parent.To the fir ft kind I Oiall add one, which is in it fel f very curi- 
ous, and hath theft advantages above the reft, that it is done with 
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