Note 87 — MODES OF DISTINGUISHING.

Roques fell in with two soldiers at St. Cyr, who had gathered and were in the act of carrying off twice the quantity of this fungus necessary to kill the regiment, when he interfered, and no doubt saved many lives in doing so. The soldiers, it appears, had mistaken the Ag. necator for the Hydnum repandum, to which it bears some slight resemblance in colour, and in nothing else.