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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

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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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Introduction

A prominent botanical authority connected with one of our universities, upon learning of my intention of perpetrating a popular work on our edible mushrooms and toadstools, was inclined to take issue with me on the wisdom of such publication, giving as his reasons that, owing to the extreme difficulty of imparting exact scientific knowledge to the "general reader," such a work, in its presumably imperfect interpretation by the very individuals it is intended to benefit, would only result, in many instances, in supplanting the popular wholesome distrust of all mushrooms with a rash over-confidence which would tend to increase the labors of the family physician and the coroner. And, to a certain extent, in its appreciation of the difficulty of imparting exact science to the lay mind, his criticism was entirely reasonable, and would certainly apply to any treatise on edible