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When the fangus is decaying, the gills 

 become of a brownifh complexion. 



In Scotland this and other fungi of the 

 agaric kind, are called paddock- ftools. It 

 grows in woods, and frequently in paftures. 



LiGHTFooT obferved it in Scotland, at 

 Blair in Athol, and in the woods at the caf- 

 cades of Monefs, near Taymouth *. 



The agaricus mufcarius will deftroy bugs, 

 if rubbed upon the parts of the bed, where 

 they retreat in the day. The inhabitants in 

 the north of Europe, whofe hopfes at the 

 end of fummer are infefted with flies, infufe 

 it in milk, and fet it in their windows. As 

 foon as the flies tafle it, they are inftantly 

 poifoned. 



Haller relates, that fix perfons of Li- 

 thuania, in Poland, perifiied at one time by 

 eating it; and that in Kamtfchatka it had 

 driven others raving mad. Two or three of 

 thefe fungi may perhaps be eaten without 



* See Lightfoot's Flora Scotica, vol. ii. p. loio, 

 E 4 danger, 



