Student's Hand-Book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous, by Thomas Taylor, M. D

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Author

Taylor, Thomas, 1820-1910

Title

Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous

Credits

Produced by Peter Vachuska, Stephen H. Sentoff, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Pathogenic fungi

Category

Text

eBook-No.

32982

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32982

Release Date

June 26, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.INTRODUCTION. — CRYPTOGAMS.
2. 2.FUNGI. — CLASSIFICATION. — STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AGARICINI.
3. 3.MUSHROOM GILLS.
4. 4.THE VOLVA.
5. 5.THE MUSHROOM VEIL.
6. 6.MUSHROOM SPORES AND MYCELIUM.
7. 7.MYCELIUM. — ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "MUSHROOM." — FOOD VALUE OF MUSHROOMS. — CAUTIONARY SUGGESTIONS. — APPENDIX A.
8. 8.Preserving and Cooking Mushrooms.
9. 9.Receipts. — APPENDIX B.
10. 10.GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING MUSHROOMS.
11. 11.AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. — ASCOMYCETES. — DISCOMYCETES. — RECEIPTS FOR COOKING. — Mushroom Growing. [A]
12. 12.DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING THE COMPOST FOR THE BEDS.
13. 13.Compost for Mushroom Beds.
14. 14.Mushroom Culture in Canada.
15. 15.Cultivation of Mushrooms in Japan.
16. 16.Manufacture of Spawn. — " Brick Spawn. " — "Mill Track" Spawn. — Spawn Produced in a Manure Heap. — APPENDIX A.
17. 17.CONTINUATION OF GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING MUSHROOMS. — APPENDIX B. — ANALYTICAL TABLE. — POLYPOREI. — RECIPES FOR COOKING MUSHROOMS. — LIST OF THE GENERA OF HYMENOMYCETES. — BREFIELD'S CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI. — CONIOMYCETES AND HYPHOMYCETES. — HYPHOMYCETES. — PHYCOMYCETES OR PHYSOMYCETES. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — APPENDIX. — GASTEROMYCETES. — MYXOMYCETES OR MYXOGASTERS.—" Slime Fungi ." — GENERA OF GASTEROMYCETES, ACCORDING TO SACCARDO. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — APPENDIX. — ALKALOIDS OF THE POISONOUS MUSHROOMS.
18. 18.Muscarin. [A]
19. 19.Phallin.
20. 20.The Poisonous Alkaloid of Gyromitra esculenta Fries ( Helvella esculenta Pers. ) — Helvellic Acid.
21. 21.Poisonous and Deleterious Mushrooms of the Lactar, Russula, and Boletus Groups . — Poisonous Boleti.
22. 22.Recent Instances of Mushroom Poisoning. — BIBLIOGRAPHY—FUNGI. — BIBLIOGRAPHY. — INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. — CORRECTION OF PLATES.

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