History of the Fungi of the Rimini Territory

Vallisnerius The text refers to Supplemento ai Giornali d'Italia T. III and Landius might contend; for all fungi that are born on plants have fibers that are only contiguous, but not continuous with the plants upon which they grow. Now agarici bracket fungi are accustomed to arise either around the hollows of plants, which the mulberry trees especially have in a most patent way, whose humor, fermenting with the dust of the earth impacted by the winds among the wrinkles of the bark, exquisitely explains the seminal principle of the agarici bracket fungi; or they arise in the Rimini territory on beams and dry trunks, and among their fissures, in whose sinuses sufficient humidity lies hidden so that the seminal principle may obtain its explanation. What more? Some write that plants teeming with agarici bracket fungi are near death. Eleven years ago I observed this in my villa: for eleven years, therefore, certain plum trees, teeming with Agaricus igniarius tinder bracket fungus, despite this disease, have prolonged their life, and as far as I can conjecture, as long as they are not seized by another disease, they will prolong it into the future century.

Furthermore, since it is patent to any diligent observer that fungi have fibers that are only contiguous, and not continuous with the plants upon which they grow, it will also become known that fungi have peculiar roots, just as the rest of the plants are accustomed to have; we confess, however, that in most [cases] it is mucous, or woven from very thin threads implicated together; but there is no lack of diverse species of fungi that have most patent roots, instructed with cortical, fleshy, and medullary bodies, or tuberous, or net-like, or branched, etc., as is patent from the icons engraved in our plates. Moreover, the entire structure of the fungi consists of an organic [arrangement], elaborated with no common artifice, where the hand of the Supreme Maker is not hidden. The constancy of species is not missing; for the fungi which we observe in Italy not only agree in species with those which they gather in France, Germany, England, and the remaining regions of Europe, but also with those which Buxbaum observed around Byzantium, as we have known from his centuries. Furthermore, if fungi were to be recalled among the lusus naturae original: "nature's pranks/freaks", not only would the constancy of species be missing, but they would also fall apart into parts, as they call them, that are essential. For it could happen that a Boletus coralloides coral-like fungus would sprout without a volva, or at least that it would sometimes carry the volva, which it has composed of various trapezoids, as smooth, like a Phalloides stinkhorn/death cap-like fungus, which never happens. Never does a Phalloides stinkhorn/death cap-like fungus wear lamellae instead of a scrobiculated pileus. Never are pileate fungi, which are accustomed to erupt from a volva, destitute of one. Never do those which lack a volva erupt from one. Furthermore, those which are turgid with milky juice, and are called Amanitae piperatae peppery Amanitas, because the juice emulates the acridity of pepper, to whatev-