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lovely pasture near Hawkhurst, in Kent. We have found 

 them there year by year. The stems tall and bulbous at 

 the base, the pale caps umbrella-shaped in youth, but 

 tabular in maturity, and all beset by brown scales 

 arranged in circles, from the centre, formed of remains 

 of the outer skin. This Agaric is doubtfully wholesome, 

 though its brother, the A. procerus, which it closely re- 

 sembles, makes fair ketchup, and is sold for that purpose 

 in Covent Garden Market. 



The group of Agarics designated as Tricholoma have 

 the folds sloped off to the stem, and the veil is woolly, 

 and adheres to the margin of the cap, instead of forming 

 a ruffle round the stem : in very many of the species it 

 is absent altogether. The White Agaric (T. albus), which 

 so often attracts our attention, in woods, by the snowy or 

 buff tinted colour of its ample cap, belongs to this group. 

 This was in its glory among the sward at Virginia 

 Waters. It flourishes luxuriantly in the Bedgebury 

 woods, and is found equally in the north of England and 

 Scotland. 



One of the fairy ring Agarics (T. personatus), grey in 

 colour, and with a bulbous stem, is also sold in Covent 

 Garden. The stem is tinsred with lilac, and is short, 

 and the plant has a solid appearance. We have met 

 with it on the Downs and in pastures. 



The large brown T. grammopodius is a frequent and 

 showy ornament of wooded pastures. It grows to a 

 large size, and the centre of the cap is raised and tinted 

 with a deeper amber than the circumference. The 

 Kentish wood borders are often beset with it. 



The delicate mouse tint of the Pale Tricholoma (T. 



