dispute. In the absence of Bolton, who alone could say why he thus designated the Agaric,^ we leave it to 

 the reader to decide on the probabilities, simply hinting, that the usual position of a spatterdash is not on 

 the head, and thus unavoidably demonstrating our own personal leaning in the matter. To quit our stilts, 

 the substance of Feronatus is tough and leathery, which gives it place ;unong the Scortei, or coriaceous, 

 wliite spored Agarics, belonging to the division Clitocybe, the members of which, being entirely destitute 

 of veil, have of course none of those appendages which are the remains of it in other classes, such as the 

 ring, scaly epidermis, or fibriUose stem ; for the strigse on the stem of Feronatus have no connection with 

 such an origin. The smell is not agreeable, the flavour is pungent and nauseous : it is a very pretty member 

 of the great Agaric family, more we cannot advance in its favour ; we are ignorant of any injurious 

 property for wliich it may deserve condemnation, but being of suspicious character, any esculent experiment 

 upon it is to be deprecated. 



' " Peronatm " is a term applied to all those stems which have similar strigse at tlie base, and this Agaric 

 among Peronated ones is, par excellence, Feronatus. 



