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be immediately afterwards washed with soap and water, to 

 which some suitable disinfectant has been added in the 

 prescribed proportions. 



Duties of Owners under the Glanders Order. — Under the 

 Glanders and Farcy Order of 1907, made by the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries, it is the duty of every person 

 having or having had in his possession or under his charge 

 any diseased or suspected horse, ass, or mule, to give 

 immediate notice of the fact to a constable of the police force 

 for the police area wherein the diseased or suspected horse, 

 ass, or mule is or was. 



The duty also applies to every person licensed to slaughter 

 horses in respect of a carcase of any diseased or suspected 

 horse, ass, or mule in his possession. 



Failure to comply with the requirements of the Glanders 

 and Farcy Order of 1907 renders a person liable to a fine 

 of £20, and, in certain circumstances, to a month's imprison- 

 ment with hard labour. 



EDIBLE FUNGI. 



II. — The Parasol Mushroom. (Lepiota procera.) * 



The Parasol Mushroom {Lepiota procera, Scop.) is one of 

 the most abundant and generally distributed of edible fungi, 

 and fortunately has no double amongst poisonous kinds that 

 might be mistaken for it. When young the cap is globose, 

 gradually expanding during growth until it is quite flat, with 

 more or less of a boss in the centre, and covered with brown 

 scales on a whitish ground, five to nine inches across. Stem 

 six to eight inches high, base thick, becoming slender up- 

 wards, whitish with brown markings, furnished with a broad, 

 loose collar or ring ; the gills are persistently white. 



It grows in open glades in woods on heaps of leaves, &c, 

 and is considered by some as the most dainty of our edible 

 fungi. The flavour is delicate, and best retained by a pro- 

 cess of gentle stewing in a closed vessel. 



* For Edible Fungi. I. — The Common Morel, see Journal, Sept., 1908, p.. 431, 



