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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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The Defcnption. 
1 Round Mufhrums grow vp in one night. Handing vpon a *" uC kc and round ftalke,Iike 
vjr vntoa broad hat or buckler,ofa very white coloiu vnt i -' ,t begin to wither, at what time 
it lofeth his faire white, declining toyellowneffe ' lower fide is fomewbat hollow 
fet or decked with fine gutters, drawne along from the micU'e centre to the circumference or round’ 
edge of the brim. 
2 All Mufhroms are without pith, rib, or vcinc : they differ not a little inbigneffe and colour 
fome are great,and like a broad brimmed hatjothers fmaller, about the bignellcof afiluer come 
called a doller : moll of them are red vnderneath ; fome more, fome leffejOthers little or nothing red 
atalbthevpper fide which beared! out.is either pale or whitifh, or elfc-of an ill fauored colour like 
afhes (they commonly call it Afh colour)orelfe it feemeth to be fomewhat yellow. 
There is another kindc of Mufhrums called Fungi parui lethde: vdertcuhti .- in Frglifh, deadly 
Mufhrums,which are fafhioned likevntoan hood, and are moft venomous and full ofpoifon. 
There is a kinde ofMufhrum called Fungus ClypeifermisUthalii^ that is alfoadeadly Mufi rum 
fafhioned like a little buckler. * 1 3 
There is another kinde of Mufiirum, which is alfo moft venomous and full of poifon.bearint al- 
fo the fhapeofabuckler, being called T mgus vertenatus Clypeiformis : in Englifh,the (linking veno- 
mous Mufhrom. “ 6 
2 Fungi tethales,aut faltemnon efculmi . 
Poyfon Mufhrums, or at the leaft fuch as are not vulgarly eaten. 
The MufhrmnsorToodftooles which grow vpon the rrunkes or bodies of old trees, very much’ 
refembling^rtnWa l^U , that is Iewes care-, do in continuance of time grow vnto the fubftanceof 
wood, which the FOulcrs do call Touchwood, and are for the moft halfecirculed or halfe round 
whole vpper part is fomewhat plarne,and fometimea little hollow, but the lower part is plaited o r 
purfed together. This kinde ofMufhrum the Grecians do call and is full of venome or poi. 
ion as the former,efpecially tbofe which grow vpon the Uex,Oliue,and Oke trees r 
.J here 1S ! lk T‘ n 3 ki , n , dcof Mun,r T ca,,ed Fun S us growing vp in moift and fh a : 
dowie woods, which is alto venomous,hau<ng a thicke and tuberous ftalke, an hand full high of a 
duskift, colour, the top whereof is compact of many fmalldiuifions, like vnto thehony combe. 
There 
