ESCULENT FUNGI OF GREAT BRITAIN. $59 
solid, furnished with a kind of bark or rind, attenuat- 
ed downwards, and more or less crooked ; beneath the 
pileus it becomes suddenly thickened, so as to form a 
shoulder, rendering the gills at first sight adnate. It 
is often radicating. 
The French names for this species are, le mousseron 
godaille, mousseron de Dieppe, mousseron ^Orleans, mous- 
seron dautomneyfaux mousseron, and mousseron pied-dur. 
It is much esteemed on the Continent, though not equally 
so as the true mousseron, on account of its flesh being less 
abundant and less tender. It is nevertheless in constant 
request, and is frequently dried, and afterwards used in the 
form of powder, to add a flavour to many sauces. Dr 
Paulet says, " Ce mousseron se conserve bien, donne un 
gout deUcieuoo aux sauces, et rCincommode point ; lorsqu^on 
veut bien en parfumer les sauces, il rCexige pas une longu^ 
cuisson : son parfum tres-volatil Jiniroit par se perdre,'''' 
In some parts of this country Ag. oreades is very abun- 
dant, and is the most common species to be seen forming 
those circles known by the name of fairy-rings, 
9. Ag. odorus, fragrans, planiusculus, plus minusve vi- 
rescens ; pileo laevi ; lamellis confertis, pallidis, vix subde- 
currentibus ; stipite solido subflexuoso. 
Agaricus odorus, Btdl. Champ, p. 567. t. 176. & 566. 
f. 3. — Humb. Frib, Spec. p. 85. — Sow. Fung. t. 42. 
^With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. 214. — Pers. Syn. 
Fung. p. 323.— Cand. Fl. Frang. ed. 3. v. 2. 
p. 175. Ejusd. Syn. p. S5.—Purt. Midi. FL v, 2. 
p. 624.— -M. Dan. t. I611.--Fries Syst. My col v. 1. 
p. dO.^Grev. Scott. Crypt. Fl. t. 9S."^Fl. Edin. 
ined. 
Ag. aerugineus, Schum. Scelland. p. 298. ^ 
