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Title: Among the Mushrooms
A Guide For Beginners

Author: Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin

Release Date: May 26, 2006 [EBook #18452]

Language: English

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[Illustration (Frontispiece):

1. Craterellus cornucopioides.
2. Cortinarius armillatus.
3. Clitocybe laccata.
4. Tremellodon gelatinosum.]

AMONG THE MUSHROOMS
A Guide for Beginners

by

ELLEN M. DALLAS
and
CAROLINE A. BURGIN

[Illustration]

Toronto / London
Drexel Biddle, Publisher

NEW YORK 67 Fifth Avenue
PHILADELPHIA 228 South Fourth St.
SAN FRANCISCO 319-325 Sansome St.

1900

Copyright, 1900
By A. J. DREXEL BIDDLE

Press of
DREXEL BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA

"_Have you not seen in the woods on a late autumn morning
a poor fungus or mushroom--a plant without any solidity, nay,
that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly--by its constant
total and inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way
up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust
on its head? It is the symbol of the power of kindness._"

Emerson.

PREFACE.

The books which have been consulted in the preparation of this work are,
"British Fungi," by Rev. John Stevenson; "British Fungus-Flora," by
George Massee; "Mushrooms and their Uses," and "Boleti of the United
States," by Professor Charles H. Peck, State Botanist of New York;
"Moulds, Mildew and Mushrooms," by Professor L. M. Underwood; and a
pamphlet by Mr. C. G. Lloyd, entitled "The Volvae of the United States."

No attempt has been made to do more than to put in popular language the
statements of experienced botanists, and so to arrange the matter as to
aid beginners in their work.

Thanks are due to Mr. Harold Winga