Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them / A Selection of Thirty Native Food Varieties Easily Recognizable by their Marked Individualities, with Simple Rules for the Identification of Poisonous Species

W. Hamilton Gibson

Introduction

The Deadly Amanita

Agarics

EDIBLE AGARICS MEADOW MUSHROOM

Polyporei

Miscellaneous Fungi

Mushroom Spore-prints

Recipes

Bibliography AMERICAN

INDEX

The Deadly "Amanita".

Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms
and How to Distinguish Them

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.

SHARP EYES. A Rambler's Calendar among Birds, Insects, and Flowers. 8vo, $5.00.
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS; or, Saunterings in New England. 4to, $7.50.
STROLLS BY STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. Royal 8vo, $3.50.
HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS. A Tribute to the Woods and Fields. 4to, $7.50.
PASTORAL DAYS; or, Memories of a New England Year. 4to, $7.50.
CAMP LIFE IN THE WOODS, and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap-making. 16mo, $1.00.

Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.

"For those who do hunger after the earthlie
excrescences called mushrooms."—Gerarde.

TOC

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

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