with age, but remainiug coklly, and rather dirtily, white to the last. As to the smell and flavour, some 

 jjersons either are minus the organ or it is perverted, so that we do not recommend that point as one to be 

 depended upon otherwise. 



The unpleasantness of A. grammvpodius, when eaten raw, would cause condemnation from most lingual 

 appendages. Whether it might be improved by cooking, and whether a genuinely deleterious article or uot, 

 a bolder adventurer must discover than we can boast of being ; for at the same season, in similar habitats, 

 but much more profusely and commonly, we know that a perfectly wholesome Agaric may be obtained — 

 A. personatm. Unmask the smooth Quaker-like indi\adual, turn it to the light from amidst its grassy 

 screen — does it reveal the blue stem to the day ? then eat profusely ; but if this " order of the garter " be 

 uot there, let it alone. 



