Note 102 — FAIRY RINGS.
Reading edition
On digging up the earth in the neighbourhood of a ring in which A. prunulus was at the time growing, I found the mould to the depth of a foot and more, hoary, with an arachnoid spawn strongly charged with the odour of this mushroom. Persoon found that to destroy a fairy-ring of the same Agaric, it was necessary to dig to a considerable depth, when the next crop that came up was disseminated sporadically over the ground.