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stem is inclined to be .hollow. It is the species exposed 

 for sale in Co vent Garden Market. Indeed, after 

 knowing the market for many years, I have rarely seen 

 any other species there ; when the true mushroom, how- 

 ever, is there, it is frequently mingled with horse mush- 



Fig. 29. Agaricus arvensis (Horse Mushroom). Pastures, in autumn ; 

 colour, yellowish; gills pallid, at length black j diameter, 6 to 24 in. 



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rooms, which seems to show that the dealers do not know 

 one from the other. In the wet days of autumn, children, 

 idlers, and beggars go a few miles from town into the 

 meadows to gather whatever they can find in the mush- 

 room line ; they then bring their dirty stock to market, 



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