ABOUT FUNGI. [CHAP. xm. 



they stand agape in utter amazement to witness 

 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 Ascoboli 

 .and the dung-borne Pezizae, 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.'" 



FlG. 147. Cyath-usvemicosus, or Bird's-nest Fungus. 



