foom, but is generally of a firmer texture, whiter and 

 fmoother, fometimes ftained with blotches of yellow, 

 more particularly if touched or bruiled. The young 

 lamellae are feldom of fo bright a red as thofe of the 

 true Muflirooms. It often grows very large ; and I 

 have no doubt but the plant mentioned by Mr. Stack- 

 houfe to Dr. Withering of the enormous lize of i8 

 inches over the pileus, the Item as thick as a man's 

 wrift, and every part in proportion, was no other than 

 A. Georgii^ as I have feen many equally large at Staple- 

 ford Abbot, in Effex, where the people call them 

 White-caps, laughing at thofe cockneys who take them 

 for Muflirooms. I have feen perfons from London 

 gathering hampersfull of them for the markets, where 

 they are fold as Muflirooms. Their dry and tough 

 quality renders them unfit for the table in any fliape, 

 though we do not know that they polTcfs any poifonous 

 quahty. Parkinfon 137. 4. fays " they are called St. 

 George's muflirooms, becaufe they grow up about that 

 time." (St. George's day.) 



TAB. CCCV. 



AGARICUS cAMPESTRis. Linn. 



W E have feen this, the common or true Mufliroom, 

 in the grcateft abundance on the iQand of Sheppey, 

 near Minfter, and of a very large fize, but not equal to 

 the preceding. It is feldom fo white as the other, 

 being moil commonly of a brownifli hue. The pileus 

 is a little floccofe, and the plant altogether more tender, 

 and more readily lacerating into fibres. In the young 

 plants the ftipes is moftly folid, but in the old ones 

 pithy and fomewhat hollow. We have found feveral 

 varieties of this Agaric in Keniington gardens (par- 

 ticularly, one group) of a very dark colour, which on 

 the leaft bruife emitted a very red juice, and had a pe- 

 culiarly rich flavour. This has not the yellow tinge 

 on the pileus which A. Georgii has. 



