Filthy Gingram

The name "toad-flax" is evidently put by mistake, in Owen's *Dictionary*, for "toad-stool," a fungus, the *Agaricus virosus* of Linnæus. The common name in the North of England is "poisonous toad-stool." It is a virulent poison. See * 248. 407, 408., in Sowerby's *English Fungi*.