Frervary 18, 1860. | 
THE ee. Bee AND ARICU TURAL GAZETTE, 
145 
17 
the s ha south, “and the greater part 
of t ji shower from t the 
own this inclin I 
1, gee 
you, for it hardly comes 
ir 
ur ree, witht his principe, whi ch denies to natural selection 
kiorr the seeds ae PE is ‘often a water ba th. any power to act, unless the variation acte n he 
th a ogee ie is so with next the back of | be serv T with Data meat, game, fish, eggs, v egeta loa, “ fav O to the e variety ” in battling with its neigh- 
too PAN d. In this case, says M. Appelius, if you sow | ke = if properly prepared make -| bours in “the struggle for life.” No though the 
the ho ea: whioh germinate slowly and ‘reqvi | many heads may be very advantageou he cook 
t T damp such as Phlox and Heartsease, at the — | OF the market gardener, it is doubtful whether, in 
bottom or in the front of the bed, and those which | pp VICES oF THE FOX FOR ESCAPING FROM | 3 £ a society, they would help a plant that 
y more readily at the top or back, the result will S PURSUERS— ABe Babes 60.) ee them in pushing “itself forward toward the 
grov ood; but it will be quite the contrary, if the En pror at ee e t ight. For m a struggle, the lateral heads 
be g iane, Finally, the success s of dlings raised caer ‘ey ihe thes = Seep or two or i he the | woud become e iolated and abortive the close 
reverse eer rineipally the regulation | !#st of these devices, witen arrival of three large | contact of phbs plants, and the terminal head` 
under frames are p > birds in the flesh from Canada gave me other r occupa- 
pos the utmost | P g E would sions l ha and 
ion. On cting them I omna 
oisture. 0 
n g e in s not "ey sow thick; 
ie before it has mad 
pens, if on the contra of scr are sown thin, wed a| 
LET ig J E at 1 ix, < wit th the earth. 
little p 
YCOLOGY.—No. VI.» 
AGARICUS NEBULARIS, Batsch.—The Hor atia pre 
cept respecting Fungi,* that those , ate little o be 
d which do not g 
oodland idek, 
st, “if sot the most con- 
mongst ae 
spicuous, is tl ur present notice. 
pool, 
ut to the fox escaping ie 
ie 
t himself down 
o animal as lar, 
monke 
othing g. ote the 
would l 
ff there was a kind of of tne 
k in the 
his pursuers, 
0 feet below the edge of| f able 
The 
nce of B ong, £ ne 
the ow lety w 
Prot 
would 7 be 
SAS ‘m anufactory.”? Clad rly, three the 
“oy ‘anit ended Cauliflowers, unburdene d with un ro- 
cula energies 
tions 
pete this bre 
No as a fox, saving 
could let itself 4 dena) by means of its claws 
ke 
present i 
men 
nstance our 
the cli 
a foot in width. Now, by means of his aia the fox | 
le ak. 
an ee ess | 
Certainl 
fox would hav 
Y | peared at Kew 
ies | b ook 
1 the 
| r me result, would stand the better. rreg of turning 
| the But, be this as it Hn: I 
| reat call the attention of your readers 
| ano ‘ieee monster which, b 
abo 
und, 
in 
No sooner is gre attention called t to the var ious ivan been obliged to go over the cliff head- foremost, and ther 
than ne 
which adorn our woods, g 
grows in considerable abun 
boss or umbo in the centre and the So 
edge ri i if it was sm 
srrnkled with a “coar ws ee bloom. 
st 
em is 3 inches or e high, o same 
colour as the preu Ay slightly st tok stont 
and oft 0 low, enaa ai and 
n th se 
feeling spongy shih pounrened betw 
fingers, while the gills, 
a rad ji ae onerata broad bat 
fe 
t but e so farasin many 
thes species. The flesh of the pies s is thick 
and whit aw : eese, 
The odour is strong but not > peak en 
This is ae of the best of ou eina 
tremely delicate and easy of geeti, and 
bang like ly to. be — 
sien sui 
k 
i 
fe i: “Botan oe ʻA Paon. 
es. Sir. 
a cu e fact 
of ii of the A sok feign fr ah 
of four very me a are 
jt “a fat ii piei erig ve their 
iri ur stamens ts (eyparently 
Perit, pA with four 
ha short rit pe and two 
Tt is to be 
ea 
in near stigmas, regretted 
that no section was m t ovaries, 
which from situation a form so little re- 
e frui 
a 
ie cor 
ym Se 
© 
aa 
occurred in a state of nature, and ha 
t owers oa ha 
wild not only fare placed iti in a distinct 
genn from Begoni 
onsidered it as the 
“i í; 
fed The mly caution ies is to take Can it be possible, tape that genera and even 
care e tone ita not confounded with such spevios natural orders, spring up like Mushrooms in 
pr oe eee. This, on the con this sudden m: ? According to Mr. Dar- 
e spores, and ten so win’s hypothesis, the th is impossible; for 
ang bay that a any igre blades of G h it would have required hundreds, perh 
may chance to be beneath the pileus are pow- thousan f su ive generations ti e 
dered with them. In ws rose-spored species, enabled “natural selection” to convert an in- 
moreover, the ~ r of the spores is so co: e ovary and unisexual fl i 
spicuous that a mere icone of the gills superior ovary and bisexual flow Tf th 
shows them hiig in little red streams upon e thing more frequently iterated than 
their í surface, another in Mr. Darwi n’s book, it is this; that 
There are one or two species which grow in si fatal to my ha” if cl es be 
pas ig ” for example 4. grammopodius, not slowly progressive ; by the accumulation of 
which may easily be conf unded, but this is a small increments ration to gene- 
matter of ttle a Pie they are per- ration ; increments which, at first, may 
fectly safe bularis probably only obvious to er, but which, “bred 
very rarely = rs in "ae except in such up to” continuously, are sufficient, t 
be called woodland.- “na jon” alone (as we 
» whose fi e have borrowed, oa me t speck of a medusa 
did not identify his species with nebularis, o the human eye (if not to 
and Fr first ined to take the Hi g slave-making ant into a i pee man). 
same view; it is, however, = certain th: at empl time be only long enough, and generations 
his pl: rie and that of Batsch a “AGARICUS NEBULARIS. and divarications of form many enough, accord- 
In a few instances scarcely Natural size. (Copied t sion from Grevill yptogamic Flora.) ing to the oes, not only such things may be 
nak e then a moment’s hesitation îs done, but they have been alll sabe a su 
excusa! oe the species to anding on a br a a on fet below him, and sad “a foot change tiethathintedaty our r Begon not contem- 
in the sy most im ni device of a | plated arwin’s hypothesis ; isd it sa ch should 
It is ei rare on the continent or itle kno H but ited fox Sie ene in ancient days it might ried, set be established, if seeds should e ver be raised from 
those aut: orities which speak of it are uniform in its | succeeded by means of a n i that is, by ach a flower, and shou ld breed true then the theo eory 
praise. It may be prepared in the s same way as the | trans oming the fox into a monkey. w ag 
Mush » but as its flavour is delicate ji Ovid disti inctly states that Actæon, the fms Brantino it altogether, For, says Mr. Darwin, at page 
Requires a little more judgment in its prep n. hunter, stag a rte his “Ont the theory of natural selection we can clearly 
m, who nfessedly high au utho ori rity on such own hounds, “Dilacerant falsi, do ominum sub full mea ning. ot that old canon in 
points, says—“ A. nebularis requires i.” And Hecuba, once Queen of Troy, Kiana ea | natural ye tura I i 
a few minutes broi roiling (à la Maintenont is ‘the ba) with | female of the dog tribe Bs wards the end of her cor canon, if we look only to poke aie inhabi 
eT, pepper, and salt is su uek ape It m so be | and sadly annoyed the hood with her in world, is not rec 
ly fried w ith „bread cr r stew i Pe white sa nt how! wlings. | “ Latra' it auras.” Un Tess this of past times, it must by m: 
Sauce. The fl fe ap ape and made use of its | It mi, be easily 
digestion than any other.” The greates hands, I cannot believe in the “ device,” but m thatthe theory, stri 
be taken to se cimens, for Oe is ea ee — it the sia some inventive wag unsk but a “ gradus,” and 
those species = in age are apt to become offensive 5 natomy. Adieu, Renard of ern times. | Jet us confine « urse 
When young, it is well dapted for making a purée, for Thou another fable to the miny which thy | for a plant, at one 
which ‘the follo ing is taken from Roque’s | cunning family has, invented ced ipe es during the | and wnisexual lowers to a: 
excellent book. The i, which must be young, are | long oo so Mg hts of - Charles Waterton, | Would not such a fa z gee 
be peeled, washed in cold water, and dried. Walton Hall, Fe table world, bo 
are th ; i \ Misnocerss born of an gene ? And are 
en to oe inced as fine as possible and pressed in | Ree dace has not occurred 
À are then to be placed with a small | Home Correspondence. we quite sure oe suc i a fa å jaar 
poe of butter and pepper in a stew-pan, and shaken | Darwin on the Origin of Species in a recent num- m ature? T a irti t T sg on y i but 
be > 
a brisk fire till the butter i is melted, when some | ber of the > Gardeners’ Pooley on figurea monstrous, as t, hypothetically put—that there are 
* = -— pratensibus optima fun ‘gun sugges pl two na hare paa of plants wh ave so many 
š Natura est, aliis male creditur.” z ight amg as the way in th ee ose i to | indications of common affinity that they were placed 
Best favoured Mushrooms pasture land sup rE ahs z: in Nature. I am near together by Mr. m iy eat which differ ed 
In other kinds a dangerous poison lies. Mr. ‘Darwin 2 a r e i h oth by the 
Francis's Translation. | quite sure that, as respects this perticalar Calitower, each other nearly by 
