Nor do I imagine that the skips from the one to another will be found very great, if beginning from fluidity, or body without any form, we descend gradually, till we arrive at the highest form of a bruite Animal’s Soul, making the steps or foundations of our Enquiry, _Fluidity_, _Orbiculation_, _Fixation_, _Angulization_, or _Crystallization Germination_ or _Ebullition_, _Vegetation_, _Plantanimation_, _Animation_, _Sensation_, _Imagination_. Now, that we may the better proceed in our Enquiry, It will be requisite to consider: First, that Mould and Mushroms require no seminal property, but the former may be produc’d at any time from any kind of _putrifying_ Animal, or Vegetable Substance, as Flesh, &c. kept moist and warm, and the latter, if what _Mathiolus_ relates be true, of making them by Art, are as much within our command, of which Matter take the _Epitomie_ which Mr. _Parkinson_ has deliver’d in his _Herbal_, in his Chapter of _Mushroms_, because I have not _Mathiolus_ now by me: _Unto these Mushroms_ (saith he) _may also be adjoyn’d those which are made of Art (whereof _Mathiolus_ makes mention) that grow naturally among certain stones in _Naples_, and that the stones being digg’d up, and carried to _Rome_, and other places, where they set them in their Wine Cellars, covering them with a little Earth, and sprinkling a little warm water thereon, would within four days produce Mushroms fit to be eaten, at what time one will: As also that Mushroms may be made to grow at the foot of a wilde _Poplar Tree_, within four days after, warm water wherein some leaves have been dissolv’d shall be pour’d into the Root (which must be slit) and the stock above ground._ Next, that as Mushroms may be generated without seed, so does it not appear that they have any such thing as seed in any part of them; for having considered several kinds of them, I could never find any thing in them that I could with any probability ghess to be the seed of it, so that it does not as yet appear (that I know of) that Mushroms may be generated from a seed, but they rather seem to depend merely upon a convenient constitution of the matter out of which they are made, and a concurrence of either natural or artificial heat.