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cellars, which we thought would interest you. -As you see, the 

 stem grew right through the top of the same. This is the first 

 occurrence we have had of this kind although we have picked 

 hundreds of thousands of mushrooms since we started our cellar." 



Fig. i. Double mushroom, natural size 



The accompanying sketches, reproduced natural size, was made 

 by Miss Eaton from the fresh specimen. As may be seen in the 

 section, there are two sets of gills, as well as two stems, as though 

 the caps of two mushrooms occurring side by side had entirely 

 grown together and the stronger mushroom had lifted the other 

 into the air. 



It is interesting to recall in this connection a figure, here repro- 

 duced, and a note that appeared in Hardwicke's Science Gossip, 

 p. 209, 1866, which reads as follows :' 



" A Triple Mushroom. — A physician of my acquaintance has a mushroom- 

 bed in his cellar. A few weeks ago he cut one which was about five inches in 



