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mushroom, which can kill men as well as flies, belongs to the 

 genus Agaric, so numerous in species that it can be formed into 

 a family, that of the Agaricece. The Agarics, of which the 



FIG. 72. "At the foot of an old oak." 



esculent mushroom (Agaricus edulis) represents the type, are 

 easily recognised by their more or less fleshy pileus, or cap, 

 garnished underneath with lamella, or gills, which radiate from 

 the centre to the circumference, when the pedicel is in the 

 centre. 



