This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Fr. mousseron.] A fleshy plant belonging to the fungi, with a short white stalk and a flat or rounded head, umbrella-shaped, which grows up in pasture-fields sometimes in a single night. Many kinds can be eaten, and some are used in making ketchup.
 
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