1584 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Li b. 3. 
5 [ The Time. 
Diuers come vp in A prill, and laft not till May, for they flourifh but whileft April! continues- 
others grow later, about Auguft ; yet all of them after raine, and therefore they are found one vere 
fooner, and another later. Mufliroms, faith Pliny, grow in fhoures of raine : they come of the flime 
of trees,as the fame A uthor affirineth. 1 
51 The Names. 
They are called in Latine, Fungi : in Greeke, , in Italian, Fonghi , in Spaniih Hum os c u ' 
gumsms : in French, Campmion, which word the lovv-Countrey men alfovfe,and call them (ICamI 
petnoellen: in high-Dutch, ^cljtoentmc, IMffedmij : in Engiiih, Mufliroms,Toad-ftooi« and 
Paddock-ftoolcs. 5 
The Mufliroms that come vp in Aprill are called in Latine of fome, SpomioU ■ of the Tralbn* ' 
Frignoli : and in high-Dutch,^ 0 $t!}eL ^ ° “e Italians, 
They that are of a light red are called of fome Boleti, among the later ones which rife and fall a 
way in feuendayes. The white, orthofe which be fomewhat yellow, are'called in Latine Smlli • 
which the later Phyfitions name Porcini, or Swine Mufliroms. Suilli, faith Plim are dried’ bein<r 
hanged vpon ru flies, which are thruft through them. The dry ones are in our age’alfoeaten in Bo & 
hernia and Auftria : they that grow by the roots of Poplar trees are called of the Latines Povulnei 
Poplar Muihroms. 3 *■ * 
Puffes-fifts are commonly called in Latine, Lupi crepitus, or Wolfes lifts : in Italian Verde de 
Lupo .■ m Englifh, Puffes-fifts,and FufTe-balls in the North. Pliny nameth them frj« as thouah 
he fhoujd fay, flat. & 
Tree Mufliroms be called in Greeke,, w™, , in Latine, Fungi arbor um, and Fungiarborei ■ inEn* 
ghfla, tree Mufliroms, or Touch-wood : in high- Dutch alfo £>cl)toenime. They are all thought 
tobepoifonlome, being inwardly taken. Nicanderwriteth, that the Mufliroms of the Oliuetree 
the. Ilex trce 3 and of die Oke tree bring death. 3 
% The Temperature and Verities. 
A Galen affirmes, that they are all very cold and moift, and therefore do approch vnto a venomous 
and murthering facultie,and ingender a clammy, pituitous, and cold nutriment if they be eaten 
T 0 conclude, few of them are good to be eaten, and mod of them do fuffocate and (bangle the ea’ 
ter. Therefore I giue my aduice vnto thofe that lone fuch ftrange and new fancied meates to be 
ware of licking honey among thornes, left the fiveetneftTe of the one donotcounteruaile the’fliam" 
neffe and pricking of the other. * 
B Fufte-balls are no way eaten : the pouder of them doth dry without biting : it is fitly applied to 
merigalls, kibedheeles, and fuch like. 1 
C Indiuers parts ofEngland where people dwell farre from neighbours, they carry them kindled 
with fire, which lafteth long : whereupon they were called Ltuermrum Fungi. 
D Theduftor pouder hereof is very dangerous for the eyes, for it hath been often feen -hat diuers 
baue been pore-blindeeuer after, when fome fmall quantitie thereofhath beenblowne into their 
eyes. 
E The countrey people do vfe to kill or Another Bees with thefe FufTe-balls, being fet on fire for 
the which purpofe it fitly ferueth. 3 
F $ The fungous excrefcence of the Elder, commonly called a lewes eare, is much vfed againft 
the inflammations and all other foreneffes of the throat, being boiled in milke, fteeped in beere, 
vineger,or any other conuenient liquor. $ r ’ 
Chap, i 68 . 
Of great Tooth-mrt y or Qlomies Lung-wort. 
5J TheDcfcription. 
1 T Her M 1S ° f ?" fount1 amon S the Mufliroms a certaine kinde of excrefcence confifting of 
* ajelly orfoft (ubftancejike that of the Mufliroms, and therefore it may the more fitly 
be here inferred : it rife th forth of the ground jo forme like vnto Orobanche, or theBroome-RapJ 
and a foinfubftance, hauing a tender, thicke, tuberous, or mif-fhapen body, confifting as it were’ 
of fcales like teeth (whereof it tooke his name) of a dufty (Lining colour tending to purple. The 
ftalke n (eth vp in the middle, garmfhed with little gaping hollow floures like thofe of Satyrion . 
onthcOLitfideof an ouerwornewhitifh colour. -the whole plant refembleth a rude forme of that 
