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Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous - Julius A. (Julius Auboineau) Palmer
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Title: Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous
Author: Anonymous
Editor: Julius A. Palmer, Jr.
Release Date: December 22, 2009 [EBook #30734]
Language: English
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MUSHROOMS OF AMERICA, EDIBLE AND POISONOUS.
EDITED BY JULIUS A. PALMER, JR.
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GENERAL DIRECTIONS.
These charts are prepared for popular use, rather than for students of botanical science; all technical terms are, therefore, as far as possible, avoided.
The names mushroom
and toadstool
are indefinite, are both applied with equal reason to any fleshy fungus, and are here used as synonymes, like the corresponding term plant
and vegetable,
or shrub
and bush,
in common conversation.
No general test can be given by which a poisonous mushroom may be distinguished from an edible mushroom. But each species of fungus has certain marks of identity, either in appearance, quality, or condition of growth, which are its own, and never radically varied; none can contain a venomous element at one time, and yet be harmless under other conditions. Like other food, animal or vegetable, however, mushrooms may, by decay or conditions of growth, be unfit for table use; yet in this state no fatality would attend such use.
Therefore the identification of species is a safe guide, and is the only means of knowing what mushrooms should be eaten, and what varieties of fungus should be rejected. Having once learned to distinguish any species of mushrooms as esculent, perfect security may be felt in the use of that species wherever and whenever found; but any specimen varying from the type in the slightest degree should be rejected by an amateur.
There are about one thousand varieties of mushrooms (exclusive of small or microscopic fungi) native to the United States;