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fish when grilled — the Aijaricm ruber and Virescens to cook in 
any way, and equally good in all — these were the most conspicuous 
of the trouvailles. 
“ i ho finder may at first alarm his friend’s cooks, but’ their fears will, 
I promise him, soon be appcji-sed after one or two trials of this new 
class of viands, and he will not long pass either for a conjurer or 
something worse in giving directions to stew toadstools. As soon 
as ho is initiated in this class of dainties he will, 1 am persuaded, 
lose no time in making the discovery know'u to the poor in the 
neighbourhood, while in so doing ho will render an important 
service to the country at large, by instructing the indigent and 
ignorant in the choice of an ample, wholesome, and excellent 
article, whicb they may convert into money or consume at their 
own tables (when properly prepared) during the winter.” 
In conclusion, allow mo to thank you for the kind and con- 
siderate attention you have given to a paper in which the author 
has introduced nothing new, nor offered anything original, but has 
sought rather to direct attention to the edible properties of a list 
of fungi growing in our county, more in the useful and domestic 
sense, than from a scientific or botanical point of view, in the hope 
that some of them may be more generally adopted as suitable for 
human consumption. 
l’)Ut although thus expressing this hope, for be it from jiiy 
intention to convey the impression that without due knowdedge 
and proper precautions, fungus food is to be adopted by the public 
generally, io this point, and to the dangers surrounding it, I 
have in the first part of my paper drawn attention ; I do not wish 
to remove the prejudice and leave the ignorance— it is the latter I 
seek to remedy by a slight contribution to our Society’s records, 
and by asking the attention of our members to a much neglected 
subject, in which may be found ample means of acquiring useful 
knowleilge and instinctive amusement. 
Knowledge thus gained, and let us hope disseminated, will be 
the means of still further instructing others, so that the numerous 
fungi which are edible may be know to the many and not, as at 
jiresent, to the lew , and thus tend to secure, under proper j^-recaution, 
the sale in our markets of fooil which is the nearest approach to 
that highly prized and priced article Bufeher's Meat. 
