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Show 1386 HISTORIE OF PLANTS, THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE %& The defcréption. Thereis likewife akinde of Mufhrum, with a certaine round excrefcence growing within the earth,yndet the vpper cruft orface ofthe fame, indrie and grauelly grounds in Pannonia andthe t387 Fuflebals arenoway caten , the powderofthemdoth dry without biting; itis fitly applied toB merigals, kibed heeles and fuch like. Indivets parts of England where people dwell farre from neighbours, theycarie them kindled C ple where they grow, are conftrained to digge them ‘Vp ald taftthemabroadlike as we do Mole- eer with fire whichlafteth long 3 wheteupon they werecalled Zucernarum Funei. The duft or powder heerof is very dangerous for the cies, for it hath beene often feené thatdi- D hils,{poiling their grounds,as Molehils are hurtfull vnto our foile: thefe haue neither ftalks,leaues, fibres ,norftrings annexed or faftned vnto them, and for the moft part are ofareddifh colour, but within of awhitith yellow: the Grecians haue called this tuberous excrefCenceidve, and the La- wets bane beene pore blinde cuer after, when fomefiall quantitie thereof hath beene blowen into their ies, The countrey peoplevfe to kill or fmoother Beeswith thefe Fuffebals, being fet onfire, forthe. , turned; in woods alfo wherethe groundis fandie,but yet dankiths they growlikewife out of wood, foorth of the rotten bodies of trees , but they are vnprofitable and nothing woorth. Poifonfome Mufhrumsas Diofcorides faith, growe where olde ruftic ironlieth, or rotten clouts, or neere toferpents dens,or roots oftrees thatbring foorth venemous fruite. Diners efteeme thofe for the beft which grow vpon mountainesandhilly places, as Horace faith: Hor.lib.fer.2. jar. -------praten|ibusoptina fuigis Natura eit, aliis male creditur. ‘The medow Mufhrums are inkinde the beft, Tis ill trufting any of the reft. % The names. Hungos,CugumeTheyate called in Latine Fungi: in Greekew:xn7m: in Italian Fonghi:in Spanith € amperiigellen: Jos: in French Campinion, which wordethe low country men alfo vie,& callthem Muthrums,Toadftooles, or Pad cockttoolys inhigh Dutch Schmenwie, jp fifferitiyg + in Englith Latine ofdiners Spongiole : of the Italians n ecalledi Aprillar in The Mofhrumsthatcome vp Ruy Prignoli:andin high Dutch S8qgcbel. r ones which rife and fat ‘They thatare of a lightred be called of fome Boleté, among thelate ener : tyellow,be called in Latin Sail awayinfetien daies. The white or thofe which be fomewha ate dried, being wen ad the later Phifitions name Porcini, or Swine Mufhrums : Swillfaith Pliniealfo eaten in as are in our age vpontufhes,which are thruft thorow them. Thedry ones Popu/nes,s Opis Auftria: they that grow by the rootes of the Poplar trees are called of the Latines a ee ; Mufhrums. ot Woolfes Fiftes: in ile = Puffes Filtes, are commonlycalled in Latine Lapé crepitus, them Peziee, a MONS de Lupo : in Englith Puffes Fiftes, & Fuffebals in thenorth, P/sie nameth he fhouldfay flac. borei 310 Enand Fu neAi arbie: Tree Mufhrums be called in Greeke wxiru: in Latine Fungi arborum, glith tree Mufhrums, or Touchwood: in high Dutch alfo Schmemiie. They are at ae Oliue tres be poifonfomebeing inwardly taken. Nicander writeth that the Mufhrums of the Ilex tree,and ofthe Oketree bring death. znto a vene do approoch bi Galen affirmeth that they areall very colde and moift , and therefore s,and colde nutrimen mous and murthering facultie; andingendera clammie, pituitou of them dofuffoc ? aa eaten, Toconclude,fewe of themare good to be eaten; and moft fuch ftrange ae ee loue that thofe vnto aduice fimple my giue I e theeater. Therefor s of theone do nots” meates, to bewareof licking honie among thornes, leaft the f{weetene uaile the fharpnes and pricking of the other, Ofthe temperature ofFuflebals we finde little, and that briefly ferdowne , and that itis moift E Virgil in his firft booke of Georgickes dothwrite , ina forewarning, when he reckoneth yp the fignes that go before raine : Tum Cornixplenapluniam vocatimproba voce, Et folain ficca fecum (pattatur arena: Net notturna quidemcarpentespenfa tuclle Nefciuere hyemem: teftacimardenteviderent Scintillare oleum, & putres concrefeere Fungos. Thenwith a fullcallall alone A fturdie Crowe raine doth demand, And hauing befide hirfelfe none, She iets vp and downe the dry fand: And maidens which * night tasks do handle, Awinterly ftorme haue foreknowne, Whenfparkle they markedthe candle: *Pinching the flax¢ fromthe diftaffe, And yp rotten Mufhrumsbe growne, % Thetime. Aprill continueth 5 Diuers come vp in Aprill,and laft not till Maie: for they flourith but while& found one yeere others grow later about Augutts yerall of them after raine,and therefore they are of theflime come they ofraine, fhowers in grow P/#ze s faith Mufhrum er later. fooner; andanoth of trees3as the fame author afirmeth, % The temperature and vertuts. which purpofe it fitly ferueth, EL eee tines Tubera :the Spaniards do call them T#rmas de tierra : in Englifh we maycall themSpanith Fuffebals, % Theplace. Mufhrums comevp about the rootes oftrees,in graffie places of medowes, and leyland newely tenes Prouinces adioining which do canfe the ground to fivell anid be full of hils like Molehils, The peo y De Ofgreat Toothwoorth,or Clownes Lungwoort. I Dentaria maior Mathioli. Great toothwoort,or Lungwoort, -i Zasse Chap.163. 2 Dentariamitor, Little Lungwoort. |
