94 FLORA HOMG@OPATHICA. 
broad, fleshy, convex, at length nearly plane. Lamelle white, 
broad. Stipes four to nine inches high, half to one inch thick, 
white or pinkish; solid, or with slight cavity, bulbous. Keel 
in the form of a deflexed collar. 
GxrocraruicaL Distrisution.—Europe, Asia, and America. 
Not very common in England ; but abundant in some parts of 
Scotland. In some parts of France and Germany. Common 
in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Lapland, etc. 
Locatirtes—In dry places ; sandy deserts in Asia; and in 
dry pine woods in Scotland and other parts of the north of 
Europe. “ Its bright red colour contrasts beautifully with the 
sombre pines and white stems of the birch.” 
Parts UsEp IN MEDICINE, AND MODE OF PREPARATION.— 
The Stipes and Pileus can be used fresh, or carefully 
dried. If fresh, the stipes and pileus are to be well washed, 
and, the external part being removed, mashed up in a mortar, 
and to this add an equal part of spirits of wine; then put it 
aside for three days, and decant off the liquid from the remains ; 
then attenuate to the 30th dilution, in the same manner as 
ordered for Aconite. If the dried fungus is taken, one grain 
is to be triturated with 100 grains of sugar of milk. (Vide 
Quin, Pharm. Homeopath.) 
The time of collecting this fungus for medicinal purposes is 
in the autumn. 
Porsonous Errectrs. — Haller relates, that six persons 
perished at one time from eating this mushroom; and that in 
others it causes delirium. 
Orfila relates, that several French soldiers having eaten of 
this fungus, near Polosch, in Russia, were very shortly seized 
with anxiety, sense of suffocation, intense thirst, violent 
gripings, small, irregular pulse, universal cold sweat, altered 
expression of countenance, violet tint of the nose, general 
trembling, fetid evacuations, coldness and livid colour of 
limbs ; violent delirium, and acute pains remaining to the last. 
On opening the bodies, large spots of inflammation and 
