The children of Galloway play at hide-and-seek with a little black-topped flower which is known by them as the Davie-drap, meantime repeating the following rhyme: "Within the bounds of this I hap My black and bonnie Davie-drap: Wha is he, the cunning ane, To me my Davie-drap will fin'?" This plant, it has been suggested, being the cuckoo grass (Luzula campestris), which so often figures in children's games and rhymes.

HOW TO DISTINGUISH MUSHROOMS FROM TOADSTOOLS.The cultivated mushroom, known as Agaricus campestris, may be distinguished from other poisonous kinds of fungi by its having pink or flesh-coloured gills, or under-side, and by its invariably having an agreeable smell, which the toadstool has not.

[Illustration: MUSHROOMS.] VARIETIES OF THE MUSHROOM.The common mushroom found in our pastures is the Agaricus campestris of science, and another edible British species is A. Georgii; but A. primulus is affirmed to be the most delicious mushroom.

" Oxythopis Campestris.

ULMUS campestris.

ULMUS campestris.

Agaricus campestris.

178 campestris Field ditto l. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA AEQUAIS.