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Europe. This has been transplanted to England where it 

 is much cultivated, and has been called the Sycamore 

 from an erroneous notion that it is the same as the Syca- 

 more of the east. Neither of these Maples will compare, 

 for autumnal coloring, with those of our American woods. 

 The true English Maple alluded to in the text, is de- 

 scribed as " shifting its dress to ochery shades, then try- 

 ing a deeper tint, and lastly assuming an orange vest." 

 This is pale indeed compared with the Rubens-like 

 coloring of our native trees of the same family. 



The Maples are a very numerous and widely diffused 

 tribe of trees. No less than thirty-four species are enu- 

 merated by botanists, belonging to different parts of the 

 earth. 



NOTE P. 

 AGARICS, page 85. 



Scientific writers have examined no less than a thou- 

 sand different species of Agarics, or those fungi belonging 

 to the class of mushrooms, and probably there are many 

 more than have yet been enumerated. Some few only 

 of these plants are edible ; a large proportion are highly 

 poisonous to man, while the character of many more have 

 never yet been ascertained. It is particularly remarkable 

 that those which are found wholesome in one country 

 often become very dangerous in a different soil ; in Eng- 

 land, for instance, only three kinds are eaten, the Jlgaricus 

 campestris, or common mushroom, the A. pratensis^ or 

 fairy-ring mushroom, and the A Georgii ; but in south- 

 ern Europe many more are used as food, and among these 

 a number of the same species which in Great Britain 

 have proved very dangerous. In Kamschatka again, 



the Agaricus muscarius, considered a deadly poison in 

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