dwarfed by the other vigorous growths as never to recover it, and weeks after may be found no fiu-ther 

 advanced ; so far, our impertinent compaiison faUs, for the poor little middy who went to sea, because he 

 was a family superfluity yesterday, is recalled to be a great man now his brothers are removed, and he 

 accepts the first position in as noble a style as they held it. 



This Agaric, like many other yellow Funguses, is bitter ; a number of Phenogamous plants iu wliich 

 the yellow principle predominates are so, hence, in the days of simples, it was beheved that yellow tilings 

 cui-ed that yellow melancholy, the Jaundice ; if homoeopathic sympathy and faith were not effectual, the 

 tonic miglit do good. In all probability various funguses have medicinal qualities of which we are totally 

 ignorant. The testing them on the canine race, as Paulet did, is not satisfactory to humanity, and none 

 feel disposed to make essays upon themselves which would, perhaps, render them liable to be tried for 

 manslaughter, if others were the subjects. 



With regard to ascertaining any particular species under the head Derminus, be careful in the first 

 place that it is in that series at all ; make sure of the spores which must be rusty yellow, not reddish-ochre, 

 in the Cortinarins Agarics. It is well to keep a sample of spores of an acknowledged member of each class 

 to compare others with. After proving your Agaric to be included in Derminus, the search is greatly 

 contracted, few have a substantial persistent ring ; of them, some are viscid when moist or in youth ; but 

 A. aureus is always quite dry. Sqiiarrosus and caperatus cannot be taken for it ; aurivellus seems the 

 only one liable to confusion with it, and that is veiled at the apex. This {A. aureus) has the veil attached 

 some distance do^Ti the stem : one difference, such as this, sufiiceth. 



We found A. aureus at the foot of an oak ; also at a distance from any growing tree, but on examina- 

 tion, the roots of one remained in the ground. 



