1324- Chap. 64 . 
Tbeatrum 'Botankum. 
T R I B E 14. 
^if^heTwere^nid^FparefilwT^hcyvvercniiningw/ithall, this hath oftentimes no ftalke, or but of halfe 
:Si s&sssassu. %»^k- 
ij . There hath been gumnti Marfh called »^rW»f,thc italke whereof is like untoother Mulh- 
tala is made of Lies,like unto an Artichocke of a faint yelbwilh coloured may be called Aug* 
C 'irmTouehwtd»reXw^ kindes ofMuIhromes which grow harder than the others, and ate of a dry 
r ■ 16 ri mole fnhftance on che infide, chat may be cut or broken into fcverall peeces,having a hard or wood- 
fungous or Ipungie { d iff cr i n g formes and colours, fome being very great, and flat at the head, and 
dy cruft on the a “ lfidc> , h 0 f a brownilh yellow colour, and fuchbe they which LoM compareth to Agt- 
Hck ^VnTar^nctor twice'botled in lye, made 1 with wood allies, and being afterwards dryed, are kept broken 
into peeces, ["'[‘"I' 0 L^^me of a ftony fabftance, whereof fome arc of a round forme, very neerc unto an 
a 7 . And laftly e ^ a • i(h b f Jcke coloU r, full of white lines and (hakes, on the upper fide, embow- 
ing aTitde^from the middle to the edge, and with many lines likewife underneath, but not palling above halls 
way from the edge to the1 middle. about three inches and a halfe all whitifh.and full of deeps 
linw" fmne w^cemboweul from the Center to the circumference, where it is finely dented like a faw,the under- 
lines, lomew buc n ia u ower , browner, and varioufly bending. 
part is alfo folio ft S ® ’ w j t h the roundneffe, and hollow in the middle, the edges being cut in halfe 
29 't U^VfnSt^ndends like unto fome flower, defending thence fmaller unto the ftalke. 
way almoft an At«ricks found in hollow places of the hills in Helvetia and called by Ce/mr Agaruu 1 
° by the Country people U, Lma ,whofe fubftance is white and frothy 
Z Arris halfe a foote long and two inches broad, channelled or guttered, and fomewhat rough onthe 
up^pVt part and full ol drakes underneath, tunning cwowayes acroflc the whole, being in forme like unto a 
neates tongue! ^ ratb „ p 0 ift or FLft balls, taken from the (Jermaine word Tift ejuedcrepitnmfimficat, called 
• 3 r 2 Tu.am miAtu or OrbicnUru hpi crepitm, and Lucermre-.m fungi of fome (and taken by 'Dodontu, to be 
l p p iLi as I lav’d before, but CV«mx«hath fitft fee forth the;rue lore of it, whereof I gave you the figure 
£< f n' f t, thou reafon the Lutcrnatnm fungi being the fmall peeces of the Weeke or Cotten, that lyeth in 
before) but wit iV; c ki n ° foreh, trouble the butninq thereof, which affuredly VtrgiU meant bytholePa- 
the Oylctn Lamp Lampes, 3 as his verfes in his fitft of Georgickes doe expreffeand not thefe Fufl'e balls al- 
‘u"brirJd would fo intmc it, becaufe in divers Countries of this hand thcynfc to carry fire in them from 
though Grand would 10 mtetr ^ They >[e of feverall fizes , fo me of the bigneffe of a ball or balloonc 
then houles.dift | ° V d f h hiti(h at tbe ir fitft nfing, but growing in time to be of a dus- 
ora childeshcad more or leue, ° q( the oWfid and growing on the ground mod ufually in the dryer 
fidds° and feldome m the moyfter ( which while they are young and white, as C/ufitt faith he and others of hia 
rI being children, would in fport throw one ac another) conteimng within that outer sk.nne 
certainVduft cm powder, which if by the breaking or treading on fhould Aye up into the eyes, would trouble 
them fhrcwdW, if not goe necre to blind them: yet ferve to many good ules, Country Chi, urg.onsufing often o 
tnemttircwaiy, B_h eedins in wounds or otherw.fe, andthe Country people 
ft”'Ulun'the'lkinn^of them'to ferve them!to (launch Weeding in wound’s or otherwife, and the Country people 
witlfthe powder doc dry up kibed heeles, and the fretting of the sk.nne in any place of the bodie, as alfc to hold 
fire as I laydbefore, and With the fmoake of them being fet on hie to drive as they call it their fwarmes of 
B Thns have! (hewed vou all the kindes and forts of thefe Mufhromes, both who! fome and dangerous, that 
, r “„„ , dd ifted to the delight of them,may take heede in timeupon this admonition, that although many 
Wh °h fnnnd nf a olealant and delightfull fliew in our owne Country as well as in others, yet the danger is fo 
«eat b ve f a of d thcbcft, that many upon furfets by over eating of them have dyed Tcmed.leflc, and therefore it is 
not good to licke your honey from fuch thorncs. 
MISCE- 
