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Show 1382 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lie,3 Thereis alfo found anogher,fer forth vnderthe title Fangus virilis penit arectiforma, which wee Englifh,Pricke Muthrum,taken fromhis forme. Funeus orbicularissor Lupicrepitus,fome do call it Lucernarum fungus :in Englith, Fuffe balls. i Pucke Euile,and Bulfifts,with which in fomeplaces of Englandthey vfe to kill or {molder their Bees,whenthey would driue the Hiues,and bereaue the poore Bees of their meatjhoufes,andlines: thefearealfovied in fome places where neighbours dwell far afunder,to carry and referue fire from place to place,w hereof ip tooke the name,Lucernarum Fungus: in forme they are very round,fticking and cleauing vato the gtound,without any ftalks or ftems;at the firft white, but aftetivard ofa du- Lin. 3. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 1583 Fungus irilis Penis effigie, Fungus faniginolus. Pricke Mufhrom. Hony-comb’d Mufhrome, being troskifh colour,hauing no hole or breach in rhem,whereby a man may fee into them,which den vpondo breath forth a moft thin andfine pouder,like vnto fmoke, very noifome and hurtful wnto the cies,caufing a kinde ofblindneffe,which is called Poor-blinde,or Sand-blinde, Fungi lethales,fivenon efculenti, Poifonous Mufhrums. Tubera terra. Fuffe-balls,or Puckfifts. Thereis another kinde of Fuagus,or Muthrum,which growethin moift medowes,and by diteh fides,fiue or fix inches high,coucted ouerwith askin like a piece oftheepesleather, ofa ruflet.co- lour;which being taken away there appeareth a long and white ftumpe, in forme not much volike toan handle,mentioned inthetitle,or like vnto the white and tenderftalke of Aron, but greater: ; this kinde is alfo full ofvenomeand poifon. growing within the Thereislikewife a kinde of Mufhrum, witha certaine round excrefcence, the earthy vides the vpper cruft orface of the fame, in dry and grauelly grounds in Pannoniaand The p> Provinces adioiningwhichdo caufe the groundto fivel,and befull ofhils like Mole-hils.Mole-ils. ple where they grow,are conftrained to dig them vp and caft them abroad like as we do {poiling their grounds, as Mole-hils are hurtfull vntoour foile :,thefe haue neither ftalks, leales, fibres norfirings annexedorfaftcned vnto them,and for the moft partare ofa reddifh colour, but within ofawhitith yellow: the Grecians haue called this tuberous excrefcence, Idea, and the Ca may call them Spani!® tines Tzbera : the Spaniards do call them Turmas de tierra: in Englifh wee Fuffebals, > gq The Place. : and Ley Land new?) Muthrums comevp aboutthe roots oftrees, in grafiie places of medowes, rurbe e out of wood, urned ; inwoods alfo where the groundis fandy,but yet dankith :they growlikewif forth of the rotten bodies oftrees, but theyare vnprofitable and nothing worth. Poifonfome Mums,as Diofcorides faith,groweth where oldruity ironlieth or rotten clouts,or neereto ferpents which t roots oftrees rhar bring forth venomous fruit. Diuers efteeme thofe for the beft win medowes, and vpon mountainesand hilly places, as Horace faith, (16. fer.2. fatyr.4. ~ praten|ibus optima fungs > / A Natura cft, alys male creditur, The medow Muthroms are in kindethe belt, It is ill rrufting any ofthe reft. |
