EDIBLE MUSHROOMS. 65 



HORN OF PLENTY. 



C rater ellus cormicopioides. 



(Plate VII. Fig. 3.) 



No edible fungus is so unattractive as 

 this, which we neglected for years, but at 

 length discovered that we had been deceived 

 by appearances, and had passed over an excel- 

 lent addition to the table. It is not one of 

 the gill-bearing fungi at all, and belongs to 

 a large group which contains hardly another 

 edible species, but many as tough as leather. 

 The above is found on the ground in woods, 

 sometimes in profusion in late autumn, and 

 has the peculiar form of a sort of trumpet, 

 expanding gradually from the base to the 

 apex, with the margin bent back at the 

 mouth. It is three or four inches high, 

 with the mouth, and interior, brownish or 

 olive, or sooty, and rather scaly ; the exterior 

 smooth, or nearly so, with a few depressions, 

 greyish, bearing the spores on all parts of 

 the surface, without gills, pores, or spines. 



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