CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 1017 



Common Mufliroom, or Champignion. Anglis, 



In dry pailures after rains, as in the king's park 

 at Edinburgh^ &c, IX. 



The ftalk is Ihort, white, folid, a finger thick, 

 and furrounded with an annular membrana- 

 ceous Volva, 



The Tileus when young is white, hemilpherical, 

 flefhy, and covered with lacerated fcales ; the 

 rim inflected. 



The gills are role or pink-colour'd, arched, and 

 moft of them of equal length. In decay, the 

 Volva drops off, the TiUus becomes flat and 

 fmooth, and the gills turn black. 



This is efteem'd the bed and mofl: favoury of the 

 genus, and is the kind moft ufually brought to 

 table in England. 



It is eaten frelh either ftew'd or boil'd, and pre- 

 ferv'd either pickled or pulveriz'd. And of its 



, juice with filt and fpices is made the faucc 

 call'd Cat d up. 



The gardeners contrive to propagate this mufli- 

 room either from its feeds or roots, fo as to 

 produce them at all feafons of the year. To 

 effeft this they make beds like the ridge of a 

 houfe, compofed of alternate layers of horfe- 

 dung and earth, covered with litter. In the 

 furface of thefe beds, when they have acquired 

 a fufficient degree of heat, they either plant 



the 



