Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them
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A Selection of Thirty Native Food Varieties Easily Recognisable by their Marked Individualities, with Simple Rules for the Identification of Poisonous Species
By W. HAMILTON GIBSON
WITH THIRTY COLORED PLATES AND FIFTY-SEVEN OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1895
THE WORKS OF W. HAMILTON GIBSON.
ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
"For those who do hunger after the earthlie excrescences called mushrooms."—Gerarde.
Contents
Page
INTRODUCTION 1
THE DEADLY AMANITA 43
THE AGARICACEÆ 77
THE POLYPOREI 181
MISCELLANEOUS FUNGI 231
SPORE-PRINTS 277
RECIPES 299
BIBLIOGRAPHY 325
INDEX 329
PAGE
1. The Deadly "Amanita" Frontispiece
2. Mycelium, and early vegetation of a mushroom 45
3. Amanita vernus—development 49
4. Agaricus (Amanita) muscarius 55
5. Agaricus campestris 83
6. Agaricus campestris—various forms of 89
7. Agaricus gambosus 99
8. Marasmius oreades. "Fairy-ring" 105
9. Poisonous Champignons. M. urens—M. peronatus 111
10. Agaricus procerus 117
11. Agaricus (Russula) virescens 123
12. Edible Russulæ. R. heterophylla—R. alutacea—R. lepida 131
13. Russula emetica 139
14. Agaricus ostreatus 145
15. Agaricus ulmarius 151
16. Coprinus comatus 157
17. Coprinus atramentarius 163
18. Lactarius deliciosus 169
19. Cantharellus cibarius 175
20. Boletus edulis 187
21. Boletus scaber 193
22. Edible Boleti. B. subtomentosus—B. chrysenteron 199
23. Strobilomyces strobilaceus 205
24. Suspicious Boleti. B. felleus—B. alveolatus 211
25. Fistulina hepatica 217
26. Polyporus sulphureus 225
27. Hydnum repandum 235
28. Hydnum caput-medusæ 241
29. Hydnum caput-medusæ—habitat 243
30. Clavaria formosa 251
31. Various forms of Clavaria 253
32. Morchella esculenta 259
33. Helvella crispa 265
34. A group of Puff-balls 271
35. Spore-surface and spore-print of Agaricus 283
36. Spore-surface and spore-print of Polyporus (Boletus) 285
37. Spore-print of Amanita muscarius 289
38. Action of slight draught on spores 291
The Spurned Harvest
"Whole hundred-weights of rich, wholesome diet rotting under the trees; woods teeming with food and not one hand to gather it; and this, perhaps, in the midst of poverty and all manner of privations and public prayers against imminent famine."
C. D. Badham