with injurious qualities. A. lepiclus, an excellent member of the Russulse, when subjected to culinary 

 operations, turns to an intense verdigris wherever it has been cut ; but instead of rejecting the contents of 

 the " Tourtiere " (anglice, pie-dish) on that account we should eat with more confidence, assured by that 

 pecuhar change to green, that A. emeticus had not been used instead of the wholesome kind. The 

 " Tourtiere " mode of cooking suits A. delieiosus best, as it is firm and crisp in substance ; be careful to use 

 only sound specimens, reduce these by cutting across to one uniform bulk, place the pieces in a pie-dish 

 with a little pepper and salt, and a small bit of butter on each side, tie a paper over the dish and bake 

 gently from half to tliree quarters of an hour. Serve them up in the same hot dish, and you wiU have 

 something much better than kidneys, wliich they strongly resemble, both in flavour and consistence. 

 There is but one Agaric better than this, its near relative A. volemum which is much more rare, but its portrait 

 has been taken, and if it can be included in our stipulated number of plates, it shall appear. We have 

 never found A, delieiosus in any other situation than where the earth was filled with roots of the Scotch 

 fk ; in plantations among young trees it does not grow, a certain period seems required before any spot 

 planted with this pine, is favourable to the Agaric ; while the branches are yet near the soil, and before the 

 roots have stretched far from the trunk it does not appear, but afterwards, when the space beneath the tree 

 lies fair and open, in exposed situations such as parks and commons, the search for A. delieiosus is seldom 

 in vain. It is not confined to northern or elevated sites, for a most abundant growth was in Avington 

 Park, Hants ; there is one peculiarity, which seems universal, it prefers the south and south-west side of 

 the fir-tree, it is never on the north-east and generally placed beyond the drip from the branches. Aged 

 specimens of A. delieiosus are said to possess some acrimony in a raw state ; this has never been the case 

 with Kentish ones ; Mr. Francis found them " sometimes more or less aerid ; " Mr. Berkeley's experience 

 is of their being always so. AH that can be said is, we have so often eaten them as to be convinced of 

 their perfect wholesomeuess ; this is also the opinion of our friend Dr. Badham ; but if, in any pecuhar 

 locality, they are found to be seriously acrimonious, they should be ventured on more cautiously ; they wOl 

 probably lose that flavour in cooking. 



