“M. Roques says the Morel may be dressed in a variety of ways, both fresh and dry, with butter or in oil, _au gras_ or _à la crême_. The following receipts for cooking them are from Persoon. 1st. Having washed and cleansed them from the earth which is apt to collect between the plaits, dry thoroughly in a napkin, and put them into a saucepan with pepper, salt, and parsley, adding or not a piece of ham; stew for an hour, pouring in occasionally a little broth to prevent burning; when sufficiently done, bind with the yolk of two or three eggs, and serve on buttered toast. 2nd. _Morelles à l’Italienne._--Having washed and dried, divide them across, put them on the fire with some parsley, scallion, chervil, burnet, tarragon, chives, a little salt, and two spoonfuls of fine oil. Stew till the juice runs out, then thicken with a little flour; serve with bread-crumbs and a squeeze of lemon. 3rd. _Stuffed Morels._--Choose the freshest and whitest morels, open the stalk at the bottom, wash and wipe them well, fill with veal stuffing, anchovy, or any rich _farce_ you please, securing the ends, and dressing between thin slices of bacon; serve with a sauce like the last.”--_Badham._ _Hygrophorus pratensis._ “_Pileus_ convexo-plane, then turbinate, smooth, moist; disc compact, gibbous; margin thin; _stem_ stuffed, even, attenuated downwards; _gills_ deeply decurrent, arcuate, thick, distant.”--_Grev. t. 91; Huss. II. t. 40._ [Illustration: Fig. 38 (1). _Hygrophorus pratensis._ Pastures, in autumn; colour, full buff; diameter, 2 to 3 inches. Fig. 38 (2). _Hygrophorus virgineus_ (Viscid White Mushroom). Pastures, in autumn; snow-white; diameter, ½ inch to 1½ inches.] “On downs and short pastures. Very common. _Pileus_ tawny or deep buff, sometimes nearly white, as in the next. Probably esculent.”--_Berkeley._ _Hygrophorus virgineus_ (Viscid White Mushroom). “_Pileus_ fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, moist, at length areolato-rimose; _stem_ stuffed, firm, short, attenuated at the base; _gills_ decurrent, distant, rather thick.”--_Grev. t. 166._ “On downs and short pastures. Extremely common. Mostly pure ivory-white.”--_Berkeley._ This species, exquisite in form and flavour, is one of the prettiest ornaments of our lawns, downs, and short pastures at the fall of the year. In these situations it may be found in every part of the kingdom. It is essentially _waxy_, and feels and looks precisely as if made of the purest virgin wax. The stem is firm, stuffed, and attenuated, and the gills singularly distant from each other; it changes colour a little when getting old, at which time it is unfit for culinary purposes. A batch of fresh specimens, broiled or stewed with taste and care, will prove agreeable, succulent, and flavorous eating, and may sometimes be obtained when other species are not forthcoming.