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The remainder of the mushroom family are despised because they

are injurious or of poor flavour, but they are not useless; they

give food to beasts and shelter to insects, and are an ornament

to the groves. On the green cloth of the meadows they rise up

like lines of table dishes: here are the leaf-mushrooms with

their rounded borders, silver, yellow, and red, like little

glasses filled with various sorts of wine; the kozlak, like the

bulging bottom of an upturned cup; the funnels, like slender

champagne glasses; the round, white, broad, flat whities, like

china coffee-cups filled with milk; and the round puff-ball,

filled with a blackish dust, like a pepper-shaker. The names of

the others are known only in the language of hares or wolves; by

men they have not been christened, but they are innumerable.