XVIII. Observations on a particular manner of increase in the animalcula of vegetable infusions, with the discovery of an indissoluble salt arising from hempseed put into water till it becomes putrid

Abstract

Having, at the request of Dr. Linnaeus, made several experiments on the infusion of mushrooms in water, in order to prove the theory of Baron Munchhausen, that their seeds are first animals and then plants; which he takes notice of in his System of Nature, p. 1326, under the genus of chaos, by the name of chaos fungorum seminum