The Boston medical and surgical journal . Fig. 3. Let us take up the first mushroom we find; weturn it over and see that the under side of the caplias teeth or spines ; it therefore belongs to the genusHydnum (Fig. 4). There are no poisonous species,but on account of the toughness and woody characterof many, Dr. Badham says, to eat must dependupon the united consent of the stomach and theteeth. The esculent variety is the Hydnum repan-dian, orange in color, two to five inches across, fleshwhite, turning yellow when cut, spines pale Fig. i. There is no fungus with which this one is lik
The Boston medical and surgical journal . Fig. 3. Let us take up the first mushroom we find; weturn it over and see that the under side of the caplias teeth or spines ; it therefore belongs to the genusHydnum (Fig. 4). There are no poisonous species,but on account of the toughness and woody characterof many, Dr. Badham says, to eat must dependupon the united consent of the stomach and theteeth. The esculent variety is the Hydnum repan-dian, orange in color, two to five inches across, fleshwhite, turning yellow when cut, spines pale Fig. i. There is no fungus with which this one is likely to beconfounded; once seen, it is always remembered andmay be gathered fearlessly. We next find a mushroom with a spongy look un-derneath ; this appearance is due to myriads of finetubes ; this satisfies us it is a Boletus (Fig. 5), a fam-ily which contains no members which are fatallypoisonous. Vittadini says this is not strictly thecase, though many species hitherto reputed unwhole-some, or worse, appear to lose their bad qualities bydrying. Those having high-colored or red tubeshave been considered poisonous, but no fatality isrecorded. The mild-colored ones, vvitli white, yellowor green tubes, if pleasant to the taste, are safe toeat, and sliced and fried in batter make a fair additionto our table.
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