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
The Deadly Amanita .
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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W. Hamilton Gibson
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Introduction
POPULAR TESTS REFUTED
"A POISONOUS MUSHROOM"
RULES FOR THE VENTURESOME
MUSHROOM POISONING
THE POISONOUS FLY-MUSHROOM
THE POISONOUS ALKALOID
Agarics
CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI
AGARICINI
EDIBLE AGARICS
MEADOW MUSHROOM
HORSE-MUSHROOM
ST. GEORGE'S MUSHROOM
TRUE FAIRY-RING CHAMPIGNON
FALSE OR POISON CHAMPIGNON
THE PASTURE MUSHROOM
THE RUSSULA GROUP
THE GREEN RUSSULA
PURPLE RUSSULA
YELLOW-GILLED RUSSULA
VARIOUS-GILLED RUSSULA
POISONOUS OR EMETIC MUSHROOM
THE OYSTER MUSHROOM
THE ELM MUSHROOM
SHAGGY-MANE MUSHROOM
INKY MUSHROOM
MILKY MUSHROOM
THE CHANTARELLE
Polyporei
THE BOLETI
EDIBLE TUBE MUSHROOM
ROUGH-STEMMED BOLETUS
THE YELLOW-CRACKED BOLETUS
YELLOW-FLESHED BOLETUS
CONE-LIKE BOLETUS
SUSPICIOUS BOLETI
THE VEGETABLE BEEFSTEAK
THE SULPHUROUS POLYPORUS
Miscellaneous Fungi
THE HEDGEHOG MUSHROOM
THE MEDUSA HYDNUM
THE CORAL OR CLUB FUNGUS
THE MOREL
HELVELLA
PUFF-BALLS
Mushroom Spore-prints
Recipes
Menu
AMERICAN
ENGLISH
FRENCH
INDEX