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Seeds arc ripe : neverthelefs the Species of this Tribe 
are as numerous as the former. 
I now come to coniider how far the Poifon of 
Mujbrooms can poffibly proceed from Animalcules : 
But, firft, give me Leave to doubt, whether or no 
any Perfon was ever injured from eating the com- 
mon Mujhrcom, or Amanita ; unlefs fuch Accident 
may have proceeded either from eating too many at 
once, and thereby overloaded the Stomach; or from 
fome particular Diflike in the Conftitution ; as we 
fometimes fee, even with regard to Honey, Cheefe, 
and fome of the molt innocent Parts of our Diet; 
but which, notwithftanding this, are by no means 
to be rank’d among Poifons. If there were many 
Inftances of their being pernicious, fuch mu ft fre- 
quently occur to the Praditioners in Phyfic, on 
account of the vaft Quantity annually confirmed in 
London ; but I don’t remember to have even heard 
of any fuch Accident ; but many Inftances occur of 
the noxious Quality of many of the other Species of 
this Tribe : Nor is it at all wonderful, that the dif- 
ferent Subjeds of this Clafs of Vegetables fhould dif- 
fer in their EfFeds more than thofe of the more per- 
fed Kind. The Roots of Carrot, Parfnep, and many 
others of the umbelliferous Clafs, are daily ufed as 
Food; but the Water-Hemlock, and Lobel's Oenan- 
the, though of the fame Clafs, aremoft certain Poifons. 
Here I muft obferve what Pains have been taken by 
Naturalifts, to diftinguifh the ufeful from the per- 
nicious Kinds. Among the Romans , the Boletus 
mentioned by 'Juvenal-, on account of the Death of 
the Emperor Claudius , is fufficiently deferibed by 
Bliny ; but, among the later Writers, Carolus Clujlus 
was 
