Fragile and cracking of their own accord, these pretty Funguses can scarcely be extricated from the 

 turf in an entire state, nor handled without breaking. They sweU very much in wet weather, and then the 

 flavour and scent are deteriorated; we have never eaten them as a dish, but beheve they are perfectly 

 wholesome, and during a long stroll have found that raw, they were extremely agreeable, and to the hungry 

 quite acceptable. 



It seems almost superfluous to add, that the subgenus CHtocybe has neither veil of any kind nor volva, 

 and therefore these scarlet Agarics cannot be confounded with any others of that colour, having white 

 spores. 



