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- THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[ Амт 23, 1887. 
of тее characteristic of cool Malayan sylvan 
se anticipations became not realised. 
ing quite recently the only ascent h 
Mount Bellenden-Ker, have now demonstrated by 
their botanic veri that a Rhododendron and a 
plant akin to Vaccinium do really exist on the 
summit of that Ман аз an entirely new feature 
in the flora of this part of the globe. 
The dedication of the only с an "aeter 
d in particular to that v f 
ce of ich in the Australian 
plants, the occurren whi 
vegetation is now only rende known more than 
vea Ae afte gi try discovery of Mount Bellenden- 
von Mue 
— FRUTICOSUM, L., VAR. MULTIFIDUM, 
N. E. Br., n. var. 
For horticultural purposes this is a distinct and 
spega form of the protean Panax fruticosum 
is of c t habit, with tripinnatisect leaves, the 
n. ына of which are linear or linear- 
lanceolate, and about 2—4 inch long, ti with а 
short white bristle, and often with bristle-tipped 
teeth along their margins. "The outline of the entire 
leaf is broadly ovate and very obtuse, the divisions 
are numerous and.close, and as the internodes of 
the stem are moderately short, the leaves are brought 
well together, and form a compact plumose crown. 
N. E. Brown. 
MOUNT BELLENDEN-KER. 
We learn that Mr. W. Sayer, an emissary of the 
Botanical Hime of Victoria енти over by 
Baron Sir Ferd rdinand v von vd p xut adi by 
on— suc- 
highest rs isa 
to cut the ir my T 
nexpectedly, it has proved the only one in 
all Tropical Australia which has a really coo 
zone. In a discourse given at the School of 
Mines in Ballarat, and on some other public occa- 
o- 
n types of vegetation 
ic. New genera for Aus- 
the summit of Mount Bellenden-Ker (among the 
forms as Trocho- 
hould on account of its many large seeds prove a i new 
tropical Nut tree 
ST. GEORGE'S MUSHROOM: 
AGARICUS GAMBOSUS, FRIES. 
Tuis Eo E. ы delicious Mushroom grow 
n downs and rt pastures, generally hilly 
Lamm in sneak iude it forms Fairy Rings, often 
of en us dimensions, and some id of twenty or 
more enar growth. 'The fungus is dedicated to St. 
George, because it often fi pears about St. 
George's Day, April 23, and continues in growth for 
at least three or four w 
however, is entirely regulated by the spring 
t rms of warm rain peculiar 
correspondingly later in its advent. It is almost 
» 
eem 
up into a group of a dozen or more minor specimens 
which all spring from one bas 
The accompanying illustration (fig. 104) shows a 
group of examples o osus belonging to a 
small Fairy Ring, and ets sim amongst Cowslips in 
a hilly pasture. It was sketched on Blow's Downs, 
Dunstable, Beds. 
The St. George's Mushroom of Britain is the 
mougeron of France. The English word * Mushroom ” 
is derived from the French word, per Lai which is 
applied on the Continent to Agar 
because it grows in mossy places. 
abundant growth of this delicious Agaric, as there 
often is, it affords а large quantity of delicious fresh 
Young and 
mycelium, or spawn, of the fungus diffuses a power- 
ful odour when the ground is dis — and нн 
odour has а great attraction for moles, who 
and throw up their hills in the exact pos of pH 
Fairy Ring. A misin сигар of this fact has 
led some observers to assert that Fairy Rings grow 
over the tunnels made by mobs 
The following favourable opinions, taken from 
eb lt 
Fic. 103.—sT. GEORGES MUSHROOM: 
impossible = ecu this fungus for any other 
when the seas wth is borne in mind. The 
€ has айий to the fanciful shape 
ascribed to the fungus, viz., a hoof, or the swelling 
near the hoof, from ga 
E 
is drawn up from living 
(pile m 3 or 4 inches across, like 
kid Ie Josthéi to the touch, thick, obtuse, fleshy (see 
A, A, On section, fig. 103), convex, then somewhat 
unequally implant, often cracked, smooth, white, 
very pale ochreous or very pale buff in colour, margin 
of cap at first rolled in (involute), as at в, n, slightly 
downy. Gills very narrow and crowded epe 
ventricose (swelling outwardly), B, Е, with a 
white in colour 
diameter, c, slightly bulbous in young 
I uae at the ne livid Pre in colour 
S paratively large, e 
amem e Р. heavy, powe ed: pleasant, 
fungoid—hence Sowerby's name, graveolens. Mr. 
W. De Lisle Hay, in his new book, says the odour is 
* musky-fungic." 
. The Senge is frequent in England, but less so ра 
Scotland. 
Ya ICU) io 9v 
drei. in this form. a dozen or "iced very 
small examples grow tc 
dna hion, 
SECTION. (SEE REFERENCES IN TEXT.) 
many others of the same class, have been meee 
in regard to the merits of Agaricus gambosus 
* Delieiosus." Fries 
“It is a fungus that a person cannot very well 
make any mistake abou <à It sometimes attains а 
large size, is eem in flavour, and particularly 
wholesome.” e be 
“ Alth 
most delicate ега 
less — at such a 
when th 
cannot, be considered one of the 
funguses, it is gite erthe- 
| k ary peri riod о he year 
элгй.” 
cok 
= Tout ce qui fait l'ornement. des festins s'embaume 
du parfum de ces pi games." Persoon. 
qui wn after the rains of early 
the whole hiri of Eu ne 
of c friandise. . . . lus (—gam- 
na is much prized in the Roman market, ` 
it easily fetches, when fresh, 30 iocchi, 1.64 
15 francs per pound ; a large sum for any luxury 
e. It ا ا‎ in little pt to 
baskets 
medical men, and bribes 
awyers.” L re Vh r 
“This rare and delicious Agaric, the mougeron of 
