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them dift'erent ; at any rate, the latter is so weli marked as 
a variety, that it is well known to mushroom-gatherers in 
this country, and has received peculiar names on the Con- 
tinent. 
Neither the true mushroom, nor the following species^ 
can be confounded with any poisonous ones ; as no others 
have, along with the complete or semicomplete collar (an- 
nular veil), gills which change from a pale-flesh or vinous 
colour to brown, and become at length black. 
The mushroom is so well known, that it would be super- 
fluous to particularise the diff'erent modes of dressing it for 
the table. Ample directions are given in the work of M. 
Paulet ; the most common ways are also copied from him 
into Pe r boon's Traite, p. 195. 
7. Ag. edulis, magnus, gregarius, pileo longo-convexo 
demum planiusculo, candido, iamellis pallido-carneis, ni- 
grescentibus, stipite annulo distincto. 
Agaricus edulis, Bull. Champ, t. 514. flgs. N. O. P. Q. R. 
— Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 418. — De Cand. Fl. Fran^, 
ed. 3. V. 2. p. 157. var. ^. 
Ag. arvensis, Schoeff. Fung. t. 310. & 311. 
Ag. Georgii, With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. S81. var. 2. 
— Sow. Fung. t. 304. 
Prate LL A eduhs, Gray's Nat. Arr. v. ] . p. 6^6. 
Fdngus esculentus magnus albus, &c. 3Iich. Nov. Gen. 
p. 174. 
White-caps. 
IIab. Woods, pastures, hot-beds, &c. Autumn. 
Desc. Plant large, gregarious, altogether of a paler co- 
lour than the preceding. Pilcus, when young, hemi- 
spherical or oval) gradually becoming convex, and at 
length plancj very fleshy, 3-— 8 nichc& bi'oad, white. 
