20 MUSHEOOMS. 



is a light brownish yellow color, 2 inches broad, 

 covered with woolly scales. The tubes are free 

 from the stem. They have been white, but are 

 changing to yellow. The mouths or openings 

 of the tubes are becoming bluish-green. The 

 stem is swollen in the middle. It is covered 

 with a bloom. It is stuffed with a pith, and 

 tapers toward the apex. It is like the cap in 

 color, and measures 1J inch in length. The 

 mouths of the tubes are round. This is Bo- 

 letus cyanescens, or the bluing Boletus, as 

 named by Professor Peck in his work on Boleti. 

 He says it grows more in the North, and some- 

 times is much larger than the one we found. 



We turn to the bank in hopes of discovering 

 another, and see, instead, what appears to be a 

 mass of jelly half-hidden in the clay, and in the 

 midst some bright scarlet cherries, or at least 

 something that resembles them. We take the 

 trowel and loosen them from the earth, and 

 there, among the gelatinous matter, we find 

 small round balls as large as a common marble, 

 covered by a bright red skin. When cut in 

 half we see they are filled with a pure white 

 substance, like the inside of a young puff-ball. 

 This is quite a discovery. We must look in our 

 books for its name. It is not in our British 



