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and you get it when no other edible fungus is to be had 
except the morel, and 7 is too rare in Scotland to count. It 
cannot be mistaken, and it will repay you to cultivate its 
acquaintance. Pity we cannot cultivate itself like the 
mushroom. Another fine Tricholoma is albus, a large hand- 
some fungus, which I used to find in considerable quantity 
at times. It is not unlike a Clitocybe, but the gills are 
emarginate. When several specimens are growing together 
in the shade, so that the sun cannot get at them to spoil 
the white colour of the pileus, they have a very handsome 
appearance. There is a pair of Z’richolomata that are worth 
mentioning—personatus and nudus. They are both remark- 
able for the violet colour of the stem and gills, but nudus 
has also a violet pileus, and is the most beautiful of the 
Tricholomata. They are both striking fungi, nudus not so 
common, but personatus often plentiful. Personatus is an 
edible fungus, called “ Blewitt” in England; I have eaten 
it, and can recommend it. I shall mention only one more 
of the larger and finer Tricholomata, viz.: grammopodius, 
which I have found both in woods and pastures, and which 
is not uncommon. Some years it used to grow abundantly 
in one of my glebe fields at Roxburgh. It is easily identitied 
by the stem being longitudinally marked by fine blackish 
fibrous lines, from which character it derives its name. 
Now, I am aware that to some of you, all this may be 
little more than a catalogue of names, but I have not 
serupled to go over them, as I wished to make you realise 
how many large handsome fungi may easily be found. Here 
are nineteen species out of the one subgenus Z7richoloma, 
every one of which is remarkable, and every one of which is 
easy of identification. We are apt to think of fungi as 
mainly inconspicuous and uninteresting, so like each other 
as to be very hard to make out. But I might take up one 
subgenus after another, and pick out from each a consider- 
able number of very distinct and noteworthy plants. Many 
of the Colybix are fine and common; the Mycenx, though 
they are small, are exceedingly elegant, and so with other 
subgenera. Indeed the wealth of fine fungi is so great, 
that one hardly knows what to mention, and what to pass 
over. Let me speak for a moment of just one other sub- 
