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Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America Edible and Poisonous
Student's Handbook of Mushrooms of America Edible and Poisonous Author:Thomas Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: STUDENT'S HAND-BOOK Mushrooms Of /america EDIBLE AND POISONOUS. THOMAS TAYLOR, M. D. AUTHOR OP FOOD PRODUCTS, ETC. Fellow of the A. A. A.S.; Hon. ... more »Member of the Mic, Section Royal Inst., Liverpool, England; Member of Honor of the International Medical Society of Hygiene, Brussels ; Member of the American and Washington Chemical Societies ; French Chemical Society Paris : of the American Textile Society; Medical Society of Washington, D. C. ; Cor. Member Academy of Arts and Sciences of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Cor. Member Mic. Societies of New York, Buffalo, etc., etc. Published in Serial Form—No. C—Price, 500. per number. WASHINGTON, D. C. : A. R. Taylor, Publisher, 238 Mass. Ave. N.E. li chapter{Section 4PUBLISHER'S NOTE. It has not been possible to represent all the genera of mushrooms which contain species having value as esculents within the compass of this series of five pamphlets, but the demand for these promises to justify the publication, at a future date, of a second series, which the author now has in preparation. A. R. T. Copyright. 1898, by Thomas Taylor, M. D., and A. E. Tayloh. Taylor, del. Agaricus (Pleurotus) ostreatus, Jacq. Edible. AGAEICINI. Leucospobi—(Spores White). Subgenus Pleurotus Fries. The Pleuroti are similar in some respects to the Tricholomas and Clitocybes, some of the species having notched gills near the stem, and others, again, having the gills decurrent, or running down the stem. Most of the species grow upon dead wood or from decaying portions of live trees. Very few grow upon the ground. The stem is mostly eccentric, lateral, or wanting ; when present it is homogeneous or .confluent with the substance of the cap ; the substance may be compact, spongy, slightly fleshy, or membranaceous. V...« less