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 argument, that those gathered in wet places or bad weather are unwholesome. The varieties 1, 2 and 3, with the pileus acuminated, are most certainly of this description, and nearly proved fatal to a poor family in Piccadilly, London, who were so indiscreet as to stew a quantity (found in St. James's Green Park) for breakfast. See Mr. Everand Brande's account in Dr. Bradley's Medical and Physical Journal of this month, p. 41. Mr. Curtis did not conceive it had any bad qualities, and called it A. glutinosus, because it is frequently covered with a glutinous matter. TAB. CCXLIX. Agaric grew on a whitish variety of A. plunibeus or A. Listeri mentioned tab. 245. It came to me in a phial of Hungary water, and seemed all of one colour, which it still retains. TAB. CCL. . Bull. 100 and 490. fig. 1. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 315.

. Schæff. 117. very rare. I have found it at Hornsey-wood, and at Hainault forest, Essex. My friend, the Rev. Mr. Charles Abbot, sent me a specimen from Bedfordshire. The fine carmine, cinnabar, or vermillion coloured powder or feed, is often so copiously shed as to stain every thing that touches it, and is so thick under the pores as almost to obscure them.