360 MUSHROOM CULTURE. 



but it has a delicacy of flavour that makes it superior to 

 any omelette I have ever eaten. It seems, furthermore, 

 to be so digestible as to adapt it to the most delicate 

 stomachs. This is the South Down of mushrooms. 



" In this latitude (about 36 degrees) we can find good 

 mushrooms for the table during nine or ten months of 

 the year. Including A. salignus, which some are quite 

 fond of, we can have them in every month, as this species 

 comes out during any warm spell in winter. A. cam- 

 pestris makes its appearance here as early as March, but 

 is not in full crop until September. Several excellent 

 species of the Tricholoma group do not spring up until 

 after frost sets in, and continue into December. Such 

 is the case too with Boletus collinitus, which sometimes 

 emerges from the earth frozen solid. 



" These observations and experiences are confined 

 chiefly to the Carolinas ; though I presume, from casual 

 observations elsewhere, and from information derived 

 from correspondents in other States, that, making some 

 allowance for difference of climate and length of seasons, 

 what I have said is generally applicable to the whole 

 country." 



Why we should not eat Funguses. 



The following interesting paper from the Rev. J. D. 

 La Touche was read at a meeting of the Woolhope Natu- 

 ralists' Field Club : 



