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that the taste is pleasant, but that it is 

 certainly poisonous, and he figures it with 

 his poisonous fungi of Sweden. It is by 

 no means uncommon in woods in August 

 and September, and may be known at once 

 by the rapid change of its yellowish flesh 

 to deep blue. There are one or two other 

 species which are similar, and change in a 

 like manner, but they are not so common, 

 and may possibly be only varieties. It 

 will always be safe not to eat any fungus 

 which changes to blue when cut or broken, 

 notwithstanding anything Brother Jonathan 

 may say. 



THE END. 



Richard Clay <k Sons, Limited, London & Bungay. 



