Note 10 — ETYMOLOGIES.

The Thracians are said to have intended this same misy under the new epithet of κεραύνιον, as though it were produced by thunder, unless indeed, as in Theoph. lib. i. cap. ix., we should read κρανίον, in which case they meant the Lycoperdon giganteum, a fungus frequently as big as, and in the form of, the human head: whence its name of cranium.