There can be no question but that, when young and quickly grown, the parasol agaric is a delicious fungus.
Collect fresh buttons of the fairy-ring agaric and use them at once.
Take two quarts of white stock, and put in a large plateful of the maned agaric roughly broken out; stew until tender; pulp through a fine sieve; add pepper and salt to taste; boil and serve up hot.
The parasol agarichas a very wide range of growth.
Bull, called the "agaric of civilization;" and for both these reasons it is most valuable as an edible agaric.
It must be noted, however, that when too young this agaric is rather deficient in flavour, and its fibres tenacious.
Baking is perhaps the best process for this agaricto pass through.
The St. George's mushroom is not an uncommon agaric in this country, and where it does appear it is usually plentiful--a single ring affording generally a good basket full.
The fairy-ring agaric is a valuable little fungus, and common on almost every lawn.
The maned agaric is recommended on all sides for making ketchup, but here, also, it should be quickly used, and the ketchup quickly made.
When the whitish flesh of thisagaric is bruised it shows a light reddish colour.
Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus; so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, any one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
The new agaric of this hour has a chance which the old one had not.
Mr. Coombes held out a handful of scarlet agaric to Mr. Clarence.
Clarence was content to leave his collar behind him, and shot out into the passage with red patches of fly agaric still adherent to his face.
The countries bordering upon the Mediterranean possess, however, several peculiar types; and Eastern and Western Europe present certain dissimilarities in their Agaric inhabitants.
Similar experiences were detailed by Mr. James Drummond in a letter from Swan River, in which two species of Agaric are concerned.
Fries, describing the Cladosporium umbrinum, which lives upon the Agaric of the olive-tree, expressed the opinion that the Agaric only owes its phosphorescence to the presence of the mould.
B] Ehrenberg compared the whole structure of anAgaric with that of a mould, the mycelium corresponding with the hyphasma, the stem and pileus with the flocci, and the hymenium with the fructifying branchlets.
In one case the Fly Agaric was collected and shown to us, and in the other the figure was indicated, so that we might be under no doubt as to the species.
To this group the poisonous but splendid fly-agaric (Agaricus muscarius) belongs.
D] An excellent whiteAgaric occurs on ant nests in the Neilgherries, and a curious species is found in a similar position in Ceylon.
As to the observation made by Delile that the Agaric of the olive does not shine during the day when placed in total darkness, I think that it could not have been repeated.
Notwithstanding its bad company, this agaric has a good reputation, especially for making ketchup; and Cordier reports it as one of the most delicate mushrooms of the Lorraine.
Should some pretty considerable Blood-vessel be opened by the Wound, there must be applied over it, a Piece of Agaric of the Oak, No.
Gather in Autumn, while the fine Weather lasts, the Agaric of the Oak, which is a Kind of Fungus or Excrescence, issuing from the Wood of that Tree.
Brossard, a very eminent French Surgeon, first published; and declared his Preference of that Agaric which sprung from those Parts of the Tree, from whence large Boughs had been lopped.
McClatchie reports that it is common in cultivated soil, especially grain fields and along roads, and that it is "a fine edible agaric and our most abundant one in California.
It is a large species, easily distinguished from the oyster agaric and the other related species by its long stem attached usually near the center of the cap, and by the gills being rounded or notched at their inner extremity.
The honey colored agaricis said by nearly all writers to be edible, though some condemn it.
The fly agaric is one of the well known poisonous species and is very widely distributed in this country, as well as in other parts of the world.
The oyster agaric has long been known as an edible mushroom, but it is not ranked among the best, because, like most Pleuroti, it is rather tough, especially in age.
Great caution should be used in distinguishing it from the fly agaric and from other amanitas.
The external resemblance of the plants, as shown in various illustrations, is very striking, and in the chalky agaric the gills remain pink very late, only becoming brown when very old.
This plant compares favorably with the oyster agaric as an edible one.
A combination of its variable features in one description would include something of nearly every white-spored Agaric under the sun.
I am disposed to claim that it is the largest Agaric in the world.
GILLS, the plates of an agaric on which the hymenium is situated; the lamellæ.
It is the most conspicuous Agaric in the meadows and pastures of the Miami valley; it appears to flourish from spring to autumn whenever there is abundance of rain.
The parts of an Agaricmay all be present as in Amanitæ, or severally absent in other genera.
Section of Amanita phalloides showing parts of an Agaric 3 VIII.
A fine edible agaric and our most abundant one in California.
Agaric found the venerable Cornemuse standing before his stoves and surrounded by his retorts.
Agaric first congratulated the pious distiller on the restored activity of his laboratories and workshops.
Letters were found at the Admiralty which revealed the complicity of the Reverend Father Agaric in the plot.
Father Agaric went into exile, abandoning his school into the hands of laymen, who soon allowed it to fall into decay.
The pious Agaric organised public meetings so as to keep up the agitation.
THE CABAL After his return to the capital of Penguinia, the Reverend Father Agaric disclosed his projects to Prince Adelestan des Boscenos, of whose Draconian sentiments he was well aware.
Father Agaric took leave of his friend and went back satisfied to his school.
Tall, thin, and dark, Agaric used to walk in deep thought, with his breviary in his hand and his brow loaded with care, through the corridors of the school and the alleys of the garden.
Agaric was quite ready to see a general significance in this particular fact.
Agaric made a last effort to engage the wise distiller in his enterprise.
During the evening Agaric had a decisive interview with three of the prince's oldest councillors.
Agaric described the state of feeling and outlined a vast plot.
Well, I must not forget to tell you that this fungus, growing in this spot so plentifully, is called fly agaric because a decoction of it was once used to destroy flies.
I do think I espy about twenty yards ahead the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria).
The Fly Agaric, or Bug Agaric (Agaricus muscarius) gives the name of Mushroom to all the tribe of Fungi as used for the destruction of flies (mousches).
The Larch Agaric is powdered, and given in Germany as a purgative, its dose being from twenty to sixty grains.
The pileus of the Fly Agaric is broad, convex, and of a rich orange scarlet [369] colour, with a striate margin and white gills.
It gets its name, as also that of Flybane, from being used in milk to kill flies; and it is called Bug Agaric from having been formerly employed to smear over bedsteads so as to destroy bugs.
A few cases of poisoning by the fly-blown agaric from time to time have occurred in Europe, where it has been eaten in mistake for the edible fungi, or taken by children allured by the bright attractive colours.
Some peculiar properties of theagaric have long been known to the natives of Kamschatka, and of the north-eastern part of Asia generally.
The agaric has preserved them from destruction by wrapping them in tight cerements.
The wood, while retaining its structure, has been greatly softened by the presence of the mycelium of a mushroom, the agaric of the poplar.
It may be easily distinguished from the common Agaric by the time when found, its thick firm flesh, its narrow gills, which are almost white at first, and its double collar.
When I found my first specimen I was much in doubt whether it was anAgaric or a puffball, as it seemed to be a sort of connecting link between the two classes.
The inky Agaric is frequent about barn-yards, gardens, and old stumps in woods, and usually grows in such crowded masses that the central individuals are compressed into hexagonal shape.
The dissemination of the Agaric is further considered in a later chapter on "Spore-prints.
Against the walls of the houses the Agaric shaped like a horse's hoof (Boletus igniarius) was hung up to serve as a pin-cushion.
I was also shown the Agaric of the Willow (Boletus suaveolens Fl.
I noticed the Agaric of the Spruce Fir (Agaricus Fl.
The fungus used for this purpose is an Agaric with a bulbous stalk and crimson cap (A.
Some of it is very soft, like agaric mineral, and would be so called, were it not associated with beautiful tufa of a harder kind.
I accompanied him around the island, to view its reticulated and agaric filled limestone cliffs; but derived no certain information from him of the position in the geological scale of this very striking stratum.
For suffusion of the eye a purge of aloes or agaric is recommended, and local treatment by blowing the powder of aloes and sugar-candy into the eye.
Mustard-seed, aloes, and agaric are prescribed, and cayenne pepper may be given with her food.
From the infusion of whiteagaric (Polyporus officinalis) prepared with cold water.
Upon this is superimposed a vesicular rock, of which the vesicles are filled with carbonate of lime in the state of agaric mineral.
The rock contains a portion of sparry matter, which is arranged in reticulæ, filled with white carbonate of lime, in such a state of loose disintegration that the weather soon converts it to the condition of agaric mineral.
At night and even by day, if the eyes have been prepared for it by a preliminary wait in the darkness of a cellar, this agaricis a wonderful sight, looking indeed like a piece of the full moon.
Let us begin by questioning the olive tree agaric or luminous mushroom (Pleurotus phosphoreus, BATT.
Here, in fact, on the pebbly ground of the wastelands, is the eryngo agaric (Pleurotus eryngii, D.
The first is a kind of agaric or mushroom, which grows from the root of the walnut-tree, especially when it is felled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agaric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
