a morsel crude ; this will prove a pungent and sufficient warning, if you have carelessly examined their 

 botanical characteristics, and an excellent fungus treat by way of recompense, if you have made out the 

 esculent kinds, for there are no mushrooms so delicate and wholesome as the Verdette and the Agaricus 

 lepidus, Russula lepida of Fries. Both these we intend hereafter to introduce, and will then enter further 

 into the distinctions proper to each ; but no written description of either could enable the collector to 

 decide upon specimens so well as the comparison of their portraits with each other \^^ll. 



