_Agaricus prunulus_, Scop., and _Agaricus orcella_, Badh., if they be not forms of the same species (which Dr. Bull contends that they are not[E]), have also a good reputation as esculents. They are both neat, white agarics, with a mealy odour, growing respectively in woods and open glades. _Agaricus nebularis_, Batsch, is a much larger species, found in woods, often in large gregarious patches amongst dead leaves, with a smoky mouse-coloured pileus, and profuse white spores. It is sometimes as much as five or six inches in diameter, with rather a faint odour and mild taste. On the continent, as well as in Britain, this is included amongst edible fungi. Still larger and more imposing is the magnificent white species, _Agaricus maximus_, Fr.,[F] which is figured by Sowerby,[G] under the name of _Agaricus giganteus_. It will attain a diameter of fourteen inches, with a stem, two inches thick, and rather a strong odour. A spring fungus, the true St. George's mushroom, _Agaricus gambosus_, Fr., makes its appearance in pastures, usually growing in rings, in May and June, and is welcome to mycophagists from its early growth, when esculent species are rare. It is highly esteemed in France and Italy, so that when dried it will realize as much as from twelve to fifteen shillings per pound. Guillarmod includes it amongst Swiss esculents.[H] Professor Buckman says that it is one of the earliest and best of English mushrooms, and others have endorsed his opinions, and Dr. Badham in writing of it observes, that small baskets of them, when they first appear in the spring in Italy, are sent as "presents to lawyers and fees to medical men." The closely allied species, _Agaricus albellus_,[I] D.C., has also the reputation of being edible, but it is so rare in England that this quality cannot be put to the test. The curious short-stemmed _Agaricus brevipes_, Bull,[J] has a similar reputation. Two singularly fragrant species are also included amongst the esculent. These are _Agaricus fragrans_, Sow., and _Agaricus odorus_, Bull. Both have a sweet anise-like odour, which is persistent for a long time. The former is pale tawny-coloured, nearly white, the latter of a dirty pale green. Both are white-spored, and although somewhat local, sufficient specimens of _Ag. odorus_ may be collected in the autumn for domestic use. We have the assurance of one who has often proved them that they constitute an exquisite dish. A clear ivory-white fungus, _Agaricus dealbatus_, of which a crisped variety is occasionally found in great numbers, springing up on old mushroom beds in dense clusters, is very good eating, but rather deficient in the delicate aroma of some other species. The typical form is not uncommon on the ground in fir plantations. A more robust and larger species, _Agaricus geotrupes_, Bull, found on the borders of woods, often forming rings, both in this country and in the United States, as well as on the continent of Europe, is recognized as esculent.