Note 84 — FUNGUSES CONSIDERED AS AN ARTICLE OF DIET.
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We should apply the same rules of discrimination here as elsewhere. Have we not picked potatoes for our table out of the deadly family of Solana? selected with care the garden from the fool’s parsley? And do we not pickle gherkins, notwithstanding their affinity to the Elaterium momordicum, which would poison us if we were to eat it?