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turning up with age. The substance is leathery, the flesh white, small
in quantity. Colour a reddish opake cream colour in dry weather ; but
in a moist state, a watery brown, darker in the centre, and somewhat
striate at the margin. Lamellæ distant, mostly four in a series, rather
thick and fleshy, free, yellowish-white, frequently with a tinge of pink,
generally lying obliquely over one another. Sporidia white.
On the Continent, this species has long been considered
edible, but, on account of its coriaceous texture, it is dried,
and employed, in the form of powder, to season various made-
dishes. The taste and smell in the recent state are rather insipid,
but not ungrateful.
Fairy-rings are often observed to be formed by this plant.
In regard to these curious phenomena, it is worthy of remark,
that never more than one species is detected in the same ring;
an additional fact, tending to prove (were the subject not already
decided), that fairy-rings owe their existence to Agarics.
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