16 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



JEsculus Indica, Colebrooke. 



In the Himalayas, from 3,500 to 9,000 feet. Height finally 

 50 feet; trunk comparatively short, occasionally with a girth of 

 25 feet. Never quite without leaves. Can be used like the Horse- 

 Chestnut as an ornamental shade-tree. Twigs lopped off for fodder 

 in India. Wood whitish, soft, available for various purposes, parti- 

 cularly liked for water-troughs, drinking-vessels, platters (Gamble). 

 Other Asiatic species are A. Punduana (Wallich), A. Chinensis 

 (Bunge), A. dissimilis (Blume). 



JEsculllS lutea, Warigenheim. (A. flava, Aiton.) 



The " Buck-eye." North- America. This showy tree rises occa- 

 sionally to a height of 80 feet. The wood is light, soft and porous, 

 not inclined to split or crack in drying. It is valuable for troughs, 

 bread-trays, wooden bowls and shuttles (Simmonds) ; also for ceiling 

 and wainscoting (Mohr). 



JEsculus turbinata, Blume. 



Japan. Allied to A. Chinensis. The seeds are there used for 

 human food. 



Agaricus csesareus, Schaeffer. 



In the spruce-forests of Middle and Southern Europe. Trials 

 might be made, to naturalize this long famed and highly delicious 

 mushroom in our woodlands. It attains a width of nearly one foot, 

 and is of a magnificent orange-color. Numerous other edible 

 Agarics could doubtless be brought into this country by the mere 

 dispersion of the spores in fit localities. As large or otherwise 

 specially eligible may here be mentioned, on the authority of Dr. 

 Rosenthal, who alludes to many more, A. extinctorius L., A. melleus 

 Vahl, A. deliciosus L., A. giganteus Sowerby, A. Cardarella Fr., A. 

 Marzuolus Fr., A. Eryngii Cand., A. splendens Pers., A. odorus 

 Bulliard, A. auricula Cand., A. oreades Bolt., A. esculentus Wulf.^ 

 A. mouceron Tratt., A. socialis Cand., A. laccatus Scop., all from 

 Europe, besides numerous other highly valuable species from other 

 parts of the globe. Professor Goeppert adds as edible species, sold 

 in Silesia and other parts of Germany: A. decorus Fries, A. fusipes 

 Bull., A. gambosus Fries, A. procerus Scop., A. scorodonius Fries, 

 A. silvaticus Schaeff., A. virgineus Wulf., A. volemus Fries, besides 

 the almost cosmopolitan A. campestris Linne and A. arvensis 

 Schaeffer. Dr. M. C. Cooke mentions of Agarics besides as 

 European (mostly British) kinds, fit for the kitchen: A. rachodes 

 Vitt., A. personatus Fr., A. nebularis Batsch, A. dealbatus Sow., 

 A. geotropus Bull., A. salignus Tratt., A. prunulus Scop., A. 

 mutabilis Schaeff., A. squarrosus O. Muell., A. pudicus Viv. Dr. L. 

 Planchon noted the following among the French edible species addi- 

 tionally: A. vaginatus Bull., A. ovoideus Bull., A. rubescens Fr., A. 

 caligatus Viv., A. terreus Schaeff., A. albellus Cand., A. nudus Bull., 

 A. crassipes Desm., A. piperatus L., A. oreades Bolt., A. cylindrius 



