300 MUSHROOMS. 
according to Schwinitz, is common throughout all Pennsyl- — 
vania, and often of the greatest size. We must forego the 
pickled Agaricus fusipes, unless brought to light by Cutis — 
or Ravenel; the creamy puff-balls, which in the Lycoperdon 
giganteum, is, according to our author, excellent eating, 
especially esteemed in Italy, and on the authority of Mr. — 
Hussey (author of a costly work on British Mycology) 
are, when sliced and “dipped in the yolk of egg, and sprit- 
kled with chopped meat, herbs, and spices, much lighter | 
and more digestible than egg omeletts :” these rare bits are j 
represented in the L. Bovista, which attains an enormous — 
size, and would furnish “omelets” for an army. Then fot — 
vegetable oysters we have several species of Hydna: te — 
lamb’s kidney in pine woods is the Lactarius (or Agaricus) 
deliciosus and the volemum is in Mr. Sprague’s lish è — 
more common species; as to the “beautiful yellow Chan- l 
terelle,” which smells like ripe apricots, a bright sum} — 
afternoon in September revealed such a group to my S — 
as has gladdened them ever since when my memory has n 
called the scene ; the edible Boletus, if not among our wn i 
Species, is curiously represented by some counterfeit, ants 4 
according to C. C. Frost, occurs in the woods of B 
boro’, Vermont; the dainty Orcella, I am sorry © say 
found in bad company with species of Russula, and no mit i 
ter if wanting with us, a genus containing “some of the 7 
and some of the worst of fungi viewed in an ae 4 
aspect, and some of the most brilliantly colored species: 
Our author gives us quite a list of species not une e 
in England, some sold by the quantity in the markets y 
their true scientific names, without which they could not a 
_ recognized with any degree of certainty. In a few — ; 
we have been able to identify them with American kat 
comparing reliable catalogues of our own my cologists; by 
- even this method is not without certain objections, puis | 
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the united labors of Berkeley and Curtis, the Schwein ë 
collection has been found not so authentic as it ¢” 

