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Show aBs Ofthe Hiftorieof- Plants. "1584 ; Lip.4. Lisiy, aR q The Time, Diuers cOmev int Aprill,and laft nor till May, for they flourith but whilett Aprilcontinues: others growlaver,abour Auguit ; yetall of them after raine, andtherefore they are found oe ere fooner, and another later. Mufhroms,faith Pliny, growin fhoures of raine ; they come ofthe flime of trees,as the fame Authoraffirmeth. . q The Names. Theyare called in Latine, Fungi : in Greeke, wien: in Italian, Fonghi : in Spanith,Huneos cy: gumenos : in French, Campinion, which word the low-Countrey menalfo vfe,and call themCanta pernocilen sin high-Dutch, Spehtoemme, 9 fifferling : in Englith, Mufhroms,Toad-fooles and Of the Hiftory ot Plants. gellie, or flim ie matter,foundin thefields, which we eall the falling offtats :the root is fmall and tender, : 2 There isalfo another fort hereof found, not differing from the precedent : the chiefe diffe. sence confifteth in that, thatthis plant is alrogether leffer 3 t and hath’a root diuerf{ly diuaricaee likeCorall,w hite ofcolour, full of juice, and without any fibres annexed thereto + ; in other sefpects like. I Dentaria maior Mathioli, 2 Dentaria minor. Little Lungwoort, Great Toothwoort, or Lungwoort. Paddock-ftooles. F The Muthromsthat come vp in Aprill are called in Latine of fome, Sponciole : of the Italians Prignoli : and inhigh-Dutch, (poschel, : Theythat are ofa light red are called of fome Boleti,amongthe later ones whichrife and fall away infeuendayes. The white, or thofe which be fomewhatyellow, are called in Latine Swilli : whichthe later Phyfitions name Porcini, or Swine Mufhroms. Suilli, faith Pliny, are dried, bein hanged vpon rutheswhichare thruft through them. The dry ones are in our age alfoeaten in Bo. hemia and Aufiria : they that growbythe roots of Poplartrees arecalled of the Latines, Populmi, Poplar Mufhroms. Puffes-fitts are commonly called in Latine, Lupi crepitus, or Wolfes fifts : in Italian, Vefiie de Lupo : in Englith, Puffes-fifts,and Fuffe-ballsin the North. Péimzy nameth them Pezica,as though he thould fay,fl Tree Mu becalled in Greeke, yum : in Latine, Fung! arborum, and Fungi arborei : inEns glith, tree N ,or Touch-wood: in high- Dutchalfo Schwemme, Theyare all thoughe tobe poifon g inwardlytaken, Nécander writeth, that the Mufhromsofthe Oliuetree, the Tlex tree, and of the Oke tree bring death. @| The Temperature and Vertues. Galen affirmes, that theyare all very cold and moift, and therefore do approchvntoa venomous and murthering facultie, and ingender a clammy, pituitous,and cold nutrimentif they be eaten. Toconclude, few of them are good tobe eaten, and moft ofthem dofuffocate and ftrangle the ea- tet. Therefore I give my aduice vntothofethatloue fuch ftrange and new fangled meates,tobe- ware f og ney amongthornes,left the fweetnefle ofthe one do not counteruailethe fhatpof the other. -balls are noway eaten: the pouderofthem doth dry without biting: it is fitly applied to nerigalls, kibed heeles, and fuchlike. Indiuers parts of England where people dwell farre from neighbours, they carry them kindled ithfire, whichlafteth long :whereupon they were called Lucernarum Fungi. The duft or pouder hereofis very dangerousfor the eyes,for it hath been often feen,that diuers haue been pore-blindecuerafter, when fomefimall quantitie thereofhath been blowneinto their eyes. " Thecountrey people dovfe to kill or fmother Bees with thefe Fuffe-balls, beingfet on fire, for the which purpofeit fitly ferueth. ¥ + The fungous excrefcence of the Elder, commonlycalled a Iewes care, is much vfed againft the inflammations andall other foreneffes of the throat, being boiled in milke, fteepedin beere: vineger,or any other conuenient liquor. + @ The Place, Thefe plants do growat the bottome of Hlmetrees, and fuch like,in fhadowie places : I found it growing ina lane called Eaft-lane, vpon the righthand as ye go from Maidftone in Kent ynto Cockes Heath,halfe a mile from the towne; and in atherplaces thereabout : it dorh alfa grow in the fields about Croidon,efpecially about a place called Groutes, being the land afa worthipfutl Gentlemancalled M'. Garth : and alfo ina wood in Kent necre Crayfoot, called Rowe,or Raughhill: it growethlikewife neere Harwood in Lancafhire, a mile from Whanlcy, in a woodcalled Talbot banke. Gy The Time. Theyflourifh in May and Iune. q The Names, There is norany other name extant, more thanis fer forth in the defcription, @| The Temperature and Vertues. There is nothing extant of the faculties hereof, either of the ancient or later writers :néither haue we any thing of our owne experience ; onely our countrie women docall it Lungwoort, and do vie iragainft the cough,and all other imperfections of the lungs: but what benefit they reape thereby I knownot neither canany of iudgement giue mefurther inftruGtion thereaf. Cuar. 168. Ofgreat Tooth-wort, or (lownes Lung-wort. @| The Defcription. ¢ is often found among the Mufhromsa certaine kinde ofexcrefcence confifting o ly orfoft fubftance, like that ofthe Mufhroms,andtherefore it may the more fitly be here inferted: it rifeth forth of the groundin forme like vnto Orobanche, or the Broome-Rapt andalfo in fub# nauing a tender, thicke, tuberous, or mif-fhapen body, confifting as 1tW° - offcaleslike tee ofit tookehis name) ofa dufty fhining colour tending to purple. The ftalke rifethvpis r iddle, garnithed withlittle gaping hollow floures like rhofe of Saty# o mE i f on the outfide of an ouerworne whitifh colour : the whole plant refembleth a rude forme of¢ jelly Guar. 166. Of Saunders. @ The Kindes, , } 3 the rhree He ancient Greekes hauenot knownetheforts of Saunders : Garcia and others defcribe three; ee Cisrinum, called fhopsis in which : Pallidem and Rubrum, Albin, |