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phtliisis ; 2d. In doses of two, four, and five decigrams, admin- 

 istered for some days, it gradually dissipates tliem ; 3d. In same 

 doses, with extract of opium, it lessens the sweats and checks 

 diarrhoea. Without opium, it ceases to be useful. Eichard 

 makes the B. officinal synonjonous with B. jyM/'</a?i5 of Per- 

 soon. C. Elms, d'llist. Mat. Med. ii. 23. M. Andral has also 

 employed the white agaric in cases like those of M. Bisson, hav- 

 ing used from eight to sixty grains for the night-sweats with suc- 

 cess, and without any thing untoward (see B. larycis, Jacq., Sup- 

 plem. Yol. to M. Med. de M. & de L., 117, and Journ. de Pharm. 

 XX. 589 ; Bisson, Mem. sur I'emploi de I'agaric blanc contre les 

 sueurs dans la phthisic pulm., Paris, 1832). M. Poques , states, 

 that, according to the analysis of M. Bouillon Lagrange and Bra- 

 connot, the Boletus larycis of Jacq., Miscell., contains a peculiar 

 resinous substance, in great abundance and very acrid to the 

 taste, also fungin, bitter extractive, animal matter, and different 

 salts and free acids. He adds that, on account of its drastic 

 properties and a very concentrated odoriferous principle, it is 

 classed as a poison. When fresh, the emanations from it are dan- 

 gerous, and taken in moderately small doses it acts violently on 

 the digestive canal, and may produce serious consequences. The 

 ancients attributed heroic properties to the white agaric. Vogel 

 regarded it as a mild evacuant, given in doses of a drachm in six 

 ounces of emulsion ; but it acts in an uncertain manner, some- 

 times provoking vomiting, at other times alvine evacuations, and 

 imparting a degree of heat and spasm to the whole digestive 

 canal. Champig. Comest. et Yen. 117. 



Boletus scaber^ Bull., Champ. 319. 



" hovinus, Schoeif., Fung. 10-1. S. C. ! 



" 2}rocerus, Bolt., 80. ' fo Pa. 



" aurantiacus, Bull., •4S9 ; Berk., Cryi")t. Eng. . 

 This is eaten in some of the provinces of France. M. & De 

 L., i. 635. 



Boques says it can be safely eaten while young,- even in large 

 quantity. It has neither the taste nor perfume of the true mush- 

 room. Hist, des Champs. Yen. 152. He describes B. aurantia- 

 cus as a variety, which is eatable. 



B. scoiX'tino. 



Eaten in Italy. This plant is figured l)y Michcli, t. Ixx. F. 3. 



