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Show "3304 Cuar.64. beatrum Botanicum. Trier, asif theywere made of pure filver, if they were fhining withall, this hath oftentimes no ftalke, or but of halfe aninch long, and groweth ontherotting bodies oftrees, thatlye upon the ground. ; 25. There hathbeene another fort obferved growing in Kent, in {undry places,as at Ripton neere Afzford, on Bromley greene al(osand at a place in Remney Marthcalled #arhorne,the {talke whereofis like unto other Mufhromes,but the head is madeof {cales,like unto an Artichocke ofa faint yellowifh colour,and maybecalled Fungus Citiare forme Artichoke Mufhromes, : : 26, The Touchwoodsare tikewife kindes of Mufhromes which grow harder than the others, and are of a dry fimgous of fpungie fab{tance ontheinfide, that maybe cut or broken intofeverall peeces,having a hard or wooddy craft onthe outfide, arid are of differing formes and colours, fome being very great, and flac at the head, and fmaller and rounder underneath, of a brownith yellow colour, and fuch bethey which Lobe! compareth to Agaricke, and are once or twice boyledin lye, made with woodafhes, and being afterwards dryed, are keptbroken into peeces, ferving to take fire like lint. : 27. And laftiy there are {ome of a {tonyfubftance, whereof fomeare of around forme, very neere unto an ordinary Mufhrome, being of a grayifhblacke colour, full of white lines and ftrakes, on the upper fide, embowing little from the middle to the edge, and with manylines likewife underneath, but nor paffing above halfe vay fromee = the edge to the middle. greater thanit, whofe diameter is about three inches 6 and halfe all whitith and fall of deepe H B lines, fomewhat embowed fromthe Center to the ciccumference, whereit is finely dented like a faw,the underpartis alfofall of roughlines, but fhallower, browner, and varionfly bending. 29. Another is fomewhat long with the roundneffe, and hollowin the middle, the edges being cur in halfé 0; Anotherislike unto Agaricke found in hollowplaces of a ee and called by Ge/ner Agaricus 3) etreut, and by the Country people Las Luwa,whofe fubltance is white and frothy, 31. here Seip foote long and nee broad, channelled ee = ee roa on the upper part, and fall of ftrakes underneath, running two wayes acrofle the whole, being in forme like untoa pate P T R. I B E ; a r N O R D BE R E D - wayalmoft, and forming round ends like unto fome flower, defcending thence fmaller unto the ftalke, nian: V : : [ C L A S S I S ° s : : : y : } ee D E C | M A Q V IN - A. ‘ THE FIFTEENTH TRIBE, 32 TheFufic or rather Foilt or Fit atance taken re ba'ls fromthe ovatus,or Germaine word Fift quodcrepitum fienificat,called Orbicularts Inpiballs, crepituc, and Lucernarams fungi of fome (and taken by Dedonews to be : the Pezice | as I feyd before, but Cofama hath firlt fet forththe true fort of it, whereof I gave you the figure before) but without reafon, the Lucernarnmfungi, being the {mall pecces of the Weekeor Cotten) that lyethin . : :; CHAP. 1 t the Oyle in Lampesthat{tickingforth, tcouble theburning thereof, which affuredly Virgil! meant by thole Pr= trefcentes fungos in the Lampes,as his vetfesinhis firlt of Georgickesdoe expreffe and though Gerard would fo inferreit, becaufe -in divers Countries of this Land they ufe tonor thefe Fuiffe ballsalcarryfire in them from theirhoufes, diftanta good way in funder, They are of {everallfizes, fomeofthe bigneffe ofa ball or balloone = Seay : j td j = N this Tribe as ina gathering CampeI mutt take up all chofe ftraglers, thar have eife ther loft cheir.rankes, or were not placed in fomeof the foregoing orders, that fo é maypreferye them from Joffe, andapply them to fame convenientfervice for the = ¥ ora childes lead more orleffe, round fmooth and whitifhat their firlt rifing but growingin time to be ofa dus- ; kiecolour, cracking in fundry places of the outfide, and growing on the ground moft ufually inthe dryer SOS 4 fields, and {eldomein the moyfter. ( whiehwhile they are young and white, as C/ufivs faith, heand others of his {choole fellowes, being children, wouldin {port throw one at another) conteining within that outer skinne certaine duft or powder, which if by the breaking ortréading on fhould flye up into the eyes, would trouble wy » themfhrewdly, ifnot goe neere to blind them: yet ferve to many good ufes, Country Chintirgions ufing often to ftring up the skinnes of them, to fervé them to ftaunch bleeding in wounds or otherwife, andthe Country people Yt CAG Cel BY : p SF é ~ QS a : with the powder doe dry up kibed heeles, andthefretting of the skinne in anyplace of the bodie, asal{ to hold fite worke, Gramen E®ucanthe- Gramen Lentanthemum, miim.Stichwort. Althoush Stichwore is called Gramen, yetic much diffzreth informe fromethem, and there- fore not fit to have beene there inferted, whereof as I fayd before, -and with the fmoake of them being fet on fire todrive as they call it their fwarmes of Bees. : Thus have I fhewedyou allthe kindes and forts of thefe Mufhromes, both wholfomé and dangerous, that whofoeveris addicted to the delight ofthem, may teke heedein timeupon this admonition, that although many there are twoprincipall forts,a greater and aleffer or an earlier, and later, butin eachof them chere are alfo fome {mall diverfities,’as fhallbe prefently thewed. ae ; may be found of a pleafant and delightfull fhew in our owne Country as well as in others, yet thedanger is fo 1, Gramen Leacanthemnm maju, The great yea of the beit, chat many upon furfets by over cating'of them have dyed remedileffe, and therefore itis not good greater Stichwort, to licke your honey from fich thornes, The greater Stichwore hath fhndry round!flehder ftalkes, rifing from. the roote, {car(é able ta fuftaine themifelyes, but by the helpe ofthe hedges or other things that grow neere it, being full of, joynts, with two fmall long hard rough and poin-: ted leaves at each of them, at the coppes whereof ftand many {mall flowers, compofed’of white leaves, ftanding like a ftarte, with {ome white threadsin tlie middle, the roote runneth orcree- peth in the groundall abouie,’ with-many {mall fi- bers thereat. Of thie fort there ‘hath-becnefome varietics obferved, partly inthe ftalkes”and leaves ; MISCE 4 = : being infome higher or greater than others, and. in the fowerslikewife, being farger or leffer, and inthethredsinthe middle, ;fome being paler or redder than ethers. : 3. Grames Lencanthemsum maja, The lefler Stichwort, _ This leffer'groweth likeunto the formér, and differeth onely.in being leffer, ‘the leaves (horrer and the flowers fmaller, whereof each leafe divided asic were into two, mafteth i¢ feémetohave = \ : S Varierase |