instinctively tm-us into the beaten track away from all these petty difficulties : still, if in their rambles, any 

 of oTir friends meet with these elegant green " toadstools, " they will not tliink Agaricus psittacinus less 

 lovely for appearing when there is so little that is ornamental left. 



It will be at once distinguished from young specimens of A. aruginosus by the colour of the giUs, 

 wliich are bright yellow in our Parroquet Agaric, and pallid umber in the other, and young specimens only 

 before the spores are ripened could be liable to be mistaken for it, since the spores of A. amginoms are 

 dark, those of A. psittacinus wliite. 



