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be remarked, that an exception to the uni- 
formity in the colour of the gills takes place 
in the agaricus aurantius, which fpecies ex- 
His under every kind of colour that can be 
imagined. There is a variety of the agaricus 
integer, entire agaric, which has it's hat of a 
blood-red colour, and which appears from 
Auguft to October. The colour of many of 
the fungufes is beautiful ; the moll: fplendid 
of all the agarics is the csefareus, which in 
England is a rare plant, but is common in 
Italy, and brought to the markets for fale. 
The plant we eat under the name of 
mulhroom, is the agaricus campeftris, which 
the gardeners propagate, either by fowing the 
gills, or by planting fmall fibrous fhoots, 
which are found about the bafe of the flipe, 
and which produce tubercles, in the manner 
of potatoes. It may be difficult to affign a 
reafon for the exclufive preference given by 
the englifh to this fungus, as an article of 
cookery. The caprice of mankind in their 
choice or rejection of particular kinds pf food 
is not eafy to be accounted for. The agaricus 
campeftris, however, feems to juftify the dis- 
tinction that has been given to it, as an efcu- 
lent vegetable, from the finenefs of it's flavour, 
and 
