A treatise on the esculent funguses of England / containing an account of their classical history, uses, characters, development, structure, nutritious properties, modes of cooking and preserving, etc.

by David Badham

[31] Agaricus comatus, in allusion no doubt to which Plautus says of the Lord Chancellor of his day, “Fungino genere est, capiti se totum tegit,”—that his wig was so long as to hide his whole person.

[32] The Nidularias do so.

[33] The surface is rough with elevated papillæ, the structure fibrous, the flesh softly elastic, the colour bright red, looking like the tongue in the worst forms of gastro-enterite, with which its cold clammy surface when touched offers no correspondence.

[34] A. micaceus.

[35] Thore.

[36] Agaricus narcoticus, Batsch, Fascic. vol. ii. pl. 81.

[37] A. alliaceus.

[38] A. cinnamomeus.

[39] Fries.

[40] Bolton.