Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous
()
Related to Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous
Related ebooks
Mushroom Collecting for Beginners Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGood Mushroom Bad Mushroom: Who's Who, Where to Find Them, and How to Enjoy Them Safely Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushroom Growing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushroom Growing - A Practical Manual Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFungi: Their Nature and Uses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushroom Growing Today Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushrooms of North America: A Comprehensive Field Guide & Identification Book of Edible and Inedible Fungi Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Beginner's Guide to Edible Fungi Mushrooms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushrooms: How to Grow Them - A Practical Treatise on Mushroom Culture for Profit and Pleasure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCommercial Mushroom Growing Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Mushroom Growing for Beginners - With Chapters on Composting, Spawning, Picking and Pest Control Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushrooms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Mushroom Hunter: An Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms: Everything You Need to Know, from Foraging to Cultivating Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Introduction to Mushrooms: Grow Mushrooms for Pleasure and Profit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Common Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mushroom Hunting Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushrooms of the Northwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDiseases, Insects and Spraying Fruit Trees in the Orchard Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFunky Fungi: 30 Activities for Exploring Molds, Mushrooms, Lichens, and More Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mushroom Rainbow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushroom-Growing and Mushroom Insects and Their Control Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMushrooms: A Beginner’s Guide to Cultivating and Using Mushrooms Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModern Mushroom Cultivation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Popular Tree Frogs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous - Julius A. (Julius Auboineau) Palmer
Project Gutenberg's Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous, by Anonymous
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous
Author: Anonymous
Editor: Julius A. Palmer, Jr.
Release Date: December 22, 2009 [EBook #30734]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MUSHROOMS OF AMERICA, EDIBLE ***
Produced by Chris Curnow, Claudine Corbasson, Joseph Cooper
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net
MUSHROOMS OF AMERICA, EDIBLE AND POISONOUS.
EDITED BY JULIUS A. PALMER, JR.
PUBLISHED BY L. PRANG & CO., BOSTON.
(COPYRIGHT, 1885. BY L. PRANG & CO.)
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;