Among the Mushrooms

A GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS

BY

ELLEN M. DALLAS

AND

CAROLINE A. BURGIN

Copyright, 1900

By A. J. DREXEL BIDDLE

PRESS OF
DREXEL BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA

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“Have you not seen in the woods on a late autumn morning a poorfungus or mushroom—a plant without any solidity, nay, that seemednothing but a soft mush or jelly—by its constant total andinconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through thefrosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head? It is thesymbol of the power of kindness.”

Emerson.

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PREFACE.

Thebooks which have been consulted in the preparation of this work are,“British Fungi,” by Rev. John Stevenson; “British Fungus-Flora,” byGeorge Massee; “Mushrooms and their Uses,” and “Boleti of the UnitedStates,” by Professor Charles H. Peck, State Botanist of New York;“Moulds, Mildew and Mushrooms,” by Professor L. M. Underwood; and apamphlet by Mr. C. G. Lloyd, entitled “The Volvæ of the UnitedStates.”

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

Thanks are due to Mr. Harold Wingate for his suggestions and correctionsof the manuscript; to Mr. C. G. Lloyd for permission to print fromhis photographs; to Miss Laura C. Detwiller for her paintings fromnature, which have been here reproduced; and also to Mrs. HarrisonStreeter and Miss Mary W. Nichols for their encouragement of theundertaking and suggestions in furtherance of its success.

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CONTENTS.