. Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Columbia. 3 simmons from crab apples or opossums from rabbits. The colored women shun all other kinds of fungi, whether poisonous or not, with a half-superstitious dread. This statement is made because the impression has been created that the poisonous mushrooms connected with the recent fatal case were on public sale in the K street market. They were not on sale, but were brought in from Virginia by a coun- tryman who was delivering them, somewhat under protest, upon the order of the gentleman whose death they afterwards
. Observations on recent cases of mushroom poisoning in the District of Columbia. 3 simmons from crab apples or opossums from rabbits. The colored women shun all other kinds of fungi, whether poisonous or not, with a half-superstitious dread. This statement is made because the impression has been created that the poisonous mushrooms connected with the recent fatal case were on public sale in the K street market. They were not on sale, but were brought in from Virginia by a coun- tryman who was delivering them, somewhat under protest, upon the order of the gentleman whose death they afterwards caused. The gentle- man had requested samples of a fungus that the countryman described as grow- ing near his farm and, after examining the samples, had pronounced them edi- ble and ordered a basketful. In the Washington markets four kinds of edible fungi may be found on sale in abundance on almost any mar- ket day during the autumn months, and to a more limited extent at times FlG g. favorable to their growth during the a -Horse mushroom, Agarims button. Edible. Three- fourths natural size, spring and summer. These are the common mushroom {Agaricus campestris); the horse mushroom (Agaricus arvensis); the shaggy mushroom (Coprinus comatus), incorrectly called French mushroom by the market women; and the puffball (Lycoperdon cyathiforme). A few of the numerous other edible species of the vicinity are brought now and then to market, usually to fill some particular order, but as they do not sell readily on the open market and the people who bring them are half doubtful of their qualities, little progress has been made toward popularizing them. In the belief that good photo-mechanical re- productions from characteristic photographs of a few common and easily distinguished species, accompanied by explanatory text, will be of some service to the public as a preventive of fatal mistakes, the present brief paper has been prepared. While these notes are issued primarily for use in the D
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