. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. f=?I^S-- SATURDAY, OCTOBER J/, 1S77. TRUE AND FALSE MUSHROOMS. OF all fungi the common Meadow-Mush-room (Agaricus campestris) is one of theeasiest to determine. Us characters are somarked that, taken altogether, it is almost im-possible to confound the Meadow-Mushroomwith any other fungus. This statement may ap-pear somewhat rash, when it is remembered thatthe varieties of the ]\Iushroom are almost end-less. In form, size, colour, and habit the Mush-room varies exceedingly, and runs into the ad-joini
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. f=?I^S-- SATURDAY, OCTOBER J/, 1S77. TRUE AND FALSE MUSHROOMS. OF all fungi the common Meadow-Mush-room (Agaricus campestris) is one of theeasiest to determine. Us characters are somarked that, taken altogether, it is almost im-possible to confound the Meadow-Mushroomwith any other fungus. This statement may ap-pear somewhat rash, when it is remembered thatthe varieties of the ]\Iushroom are almost end-less. In form, size, colour, and habit the Mush-room varies exceedingly, and runs into the ad-joining species—the Horse-Mushroom i,A. arveu-sis)—by such insensible gradations that it issometimes impossible to sec where the one ends,and the other begins. Its taste varies with its. lOO. —KEY TO ^Ot-OUKED ILATE OFFALSE .MlSHROOMS. TltUE AND size, colour, and habit; the richest and mostdelicious flavour is peculiar to the somewhatsmall, white-topped, pink-gilled Mushroom ofour open pastures, and this characteristic flavourgradually diminishes until a much coarserflavour is reached in the yellow-topped, pink-grey-gilled Horse-Mushroom. Tlie Mushroomof our markets, as supplied by professionalMushroom growers from spawn, is a kind ofintermediate variety which cannot be referredto one or other of the two plants above-men-tioned, but it is, as a rule, much more nearlyallied to the llorsc-Mushroom than the plant ofthe open meadows. In country markets theHorse-Mushroom is the variety commonlyexposed for sale, and the Meadow-Mushroomless fret|uently appears, the former being farmore common, and generally a heavier andbulkier plant. The position of the Meadow-Mushroom onthe coloured plate is indicated by the letter :? inthe accompanying outline (Hg. 100), and theHorse-Mu
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