. Our edible toadstools and mushrooms and how to distinguish them; a selection of thirty native food varieties, easily recognizable by their marked individualities, with simple rules for the identification of poisonous species. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. MISCELLANEOUS FUNGI 267 garlic, herbs, etc., according to taste, and serving on toast, or with crisped bread-crumbs. Our chapter on recipes will suggest other more elaborate methods. PUFF-BALLS Lycoperdacea A detailed discrimination of the Puff-balls is hard- ly necessary here, and I will therefore omit it. While I am not inclined to
. Our edible toadstools and mushrooms and how to distinguish them; a selection of thirty native food varieties, easily recognizable by their marked individualities, with simple rules for the identification of poisonous species. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. MISCELLANEOUS FUNGI 267 garlic, herbs, etc., according to taste, and serving on toast, or with crisped bread-crumbs. Our chapter on recipes will suggest other more elaborate methods. PUFF-BALLS Lycoperdacea A detailed discrimination of the Puff-balls is hard- ly necessary here, and I will therefore omit it. While I am not inclined to go so far as to contend, as was the quaint habit of old Dr. Culpeper, in his Herbal, in which he was wont similarly to elude description of an herb, affirming that "he were a fool indeed who does not know this plant "-or words of similar. â f ' - â / SECTION OF PUFF-BALL-Eaklier and Later Stages importâit is perfectly safe to say that if there is one fungus more than another with which the populace is specifically familiar it is the Puff-ball. ]~In these fungi, of which there are many species, the spores are incased within the white or dingy peridium or more or less globular caseâgasteromy- cetecs. from gaster, a stomach. The interior spore substance is at first white and firm in structure, at. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896; Herndon, James B. , Jr. fmo; Herndon/Vehling Collection. fmo. New York, Harper
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