354 
MR GIIEVILLE ON THE 
melle^ nez de chat, S^c. — De Cand. Essai, p. 340. Pers. 
TraiU, p. 188. 
It is received as an ingredient in most sauces and Jri- 
mssees ; and is often broiled with butter, oil, pepper and 
salt, with a sprinkling of bread-crumbs and fine herbs. 
The stem being rather tough, is rejected. 
In the Flora Londinensis^ it is mentioned as often ex- 
posed to sale in Covent-Garden Market, for the true eat- 
able one ; and that, though its spongy flesh renders it less 
fit for the table than the common mushroom, it is frequent- 
ly used in making ketchup. 
The sponginess of the flesh may be obviated by proper 
cooking. 
6. Ag. campestrls, pileo carnoso, sicco, subsquamoso 
sericeove, lamellis liberis, ventricosis, demum fuscis, stipite 
farcto, annulato albo. Fries. 
Agaricus campestris, Linn. Suec. no. 1203. — FL Dan. 
t. ^04<.^ScIicef Fung. t. S3 With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. 
V. 4. p. ^S5.—Huds. Fl Angl, v. % p. QlO.^Soiv. 
Fimg.. t. 305. — Bolt. Fung. t. 45. — Pers. Syn. Fung. 
p. 418.~iV^^*' Syst. t. 24. f. \^5.-^Purt. Midi. Fl v. 
% p. 638.— JTooA;. Fl. Scot. pt. % p. ^l^-^Grev. Fl 
Fdin. ined. 
Ag. edulis, Bull Champ, t. 134. & t. 514. f. L St M. 
pRATELLA campcstris, Gray's Nat. Arr. v. 1, p. 626. 
Mushrooms, 
Hab. Pastures and meadows, abundant. Spring to 
autumn. 
Desc. Plant gregarious, without particular smell. Pileu^ 
hemispherical, at length convex, and in old plants 
nearly plane, fleshy, dry, smooth and sericeous, or 
slightly squaniose, 2 — 4 inches broad, white, changing 
to a yellowish or brownish hue in decay. Lamellis 
