198 ABOUT FUNGI. [CHAP. XIII. 
they stand agape in utter amazement to witmess 
poisonous ‘frog-stools’ bagged by the score. Oft- 
times one gets warned that the plants are ‘deadly 
pisin ;’ but collectors are generally looked upon as 
harmless lunatics, a climax in this direction generally 
being reached if a gentleman, in search of Ascobol 
and the dung-borne Pezizz, sits down, and after 
making a promising collection of horse or cow dung, 
carefully wraps up these treasures in tissue paper, 
and puts them in his ‘sandwich-box.’” 
Fic. 147.—Cyathus vernicosus, or Bird’s-nest Fungus. 
