98 EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. 



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is rather strong and heavy, and the taste 

 very bitter and disagreeable. It is very 

 usual to regard this as a poisonous species, 

 but possibly it is not so in reality ; it is, 

 however, so disagreeably bitter and un- 

 pleasant, that we doubt if any one would 

 eat sufficient of it, under any circumstances, 

 to do them any grievous bodily harm. 



A very similar species (Agaricus subla- 

 teritius) but with larger caps, the colour 

 less yellow and more of a brick-red, grows 

 also in large clumps on stumps. The 

 inexperienced would hardly distinguish the 

 difference, as the gills have the same 

 olive tinge, and it is equally bitter and 

 disagreeable. 



