PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
CONTENTS.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.
ETYMOLOGIES.
THE RANGE OF FUNGUS GROWTHS.
OF THEIR GENERAL FORMS, COLOURS, TEXTURE, TASTES, SMELLS, ETC.
ODOURS AND TASTES.
EXPANSIVE POWER OF GROWTH.
REPRODUCTIVE POWER.
MOTION.
PHOSPHORESCENCE.
DIMENSIONS.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION.
USES.
MEDICAL USES.
FUNGUSES CONSIDERED AS AN ARTICLE OF DIET.
MODES OF DISTINGUISHING.
CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO THEIR GROWTH.
FAIRY RINGS.
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUNGUSES.
SPORES OR SEEDS.
OF THE ANNULUS, THE VELUM, AND THE VOLVA.
METHODICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH ESCULENT FUNGUSES.
DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES. AGARICUS PRUNULUS, Vitt.
CONCLUSION.
FOOTNOTES
THE
ESCULENT FUNGUSES
OF
ENGLAND.
Illustration of fungi from the original book cover
A TREATISE
ON THE
ESCULENT FUNGUSES
OF
ENGLAND,
CONTAINING
AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR CLASSICAL HISTORY, USES, CHARACTERS,
DEVELOPMENT, STRUCTURE, NUTRITIOUS PROPERTIES,
MODES OF COOKING AND PRESERVING, ETC.
BY
CHARLES DAVID BADHAM, M.D.
EDITED BY FREDERICK CURREY, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.
Πολλὰ μὲν ἔσθλά μεμιγμένα πολλὰ δὲ λυγρά.—Homer.
LONDON:
LOVELL REEVE & CO., HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1863.
PRINTED BY
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
