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off Of thefe and fome other Kinds he accuratSly figures 
the firft Shootings and Fibres. 
His next Tribe are fuch as grow from Wood, but yet 
are themfeives fofr. Of thele he obferves three Kinds; 
the firfl a large one in his Window, out of a piece of 
Firwood which it had often rained on ; with two fmaller 
forts from fome rotten Boards in his Garden. All thefe he 
figures both in their natural and divided States, as alfo 
Microfcopically. 
Treating of hard woody Mufhrooms (of which he alfo 
gives you fome accurate Figures) he obferves they rarely* 
appear on the Trees, in Germany and Croatia, before they 
are twenty or thirty Years old ; but mod commonly 
when forty or fifty; and the Original of them he attributes 
chiefly to the Rottennefs of the Wood, and fays they 
generally break out in the Spring, when the Leaves begin 
to fhoot. And that ufuaily they grow below the middle 
of the Trees, and are caufe of fo much Decay in them> 
that they often die in three or four Years; 
It may not .here be amifs to fubjoin what Dr. Lantifius 
communf^feii- to our .Author, concerning the Lapis Fun- 
garius, ' tliat altho’ this Afyfhroom-producer has the 
Name of a Stone, it ought not to be reckoned- of that 
Genus, it being really no other than a Mafsor -Congeries of 
Roots, Seeds and Juices coagulated with Earth into, as 
it were, a flony Subfiance. Upon which pouring Water 
and fetting it in a warm Place, it loofens its hardned Sub- 
dance ; and by mollifying its Fibres and moiftning its con- 
crete Juices, out of the Cliffs and Chinks thereof the Mujh- 
rooms fpring, as they do in other places from fimple Dung 
and loole Earth And it is alfo farther to be -noted, that 
when this flony Mafs has thus yielded thele its Offspring, 
the Remains grows lighr, porous and decay’d, its nu- 
tritive Juices being then exhaufled. 
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