Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture / authorized by the Minister of Education . black, ochre, purple-brown, or pink. The deadly-poisonous forms are found inthe first division ; consequently, unless absolutely mushrooms which have white gills or spores should beeaten. The poisonous fungi of the white-spored divisionbelonsr to the genus Amanifa which has the following P,2 ELEMEXTARY AGRICULTURE cliaracteristics—the ring around the stem, the enp at tliel)ase, and tlie volva, or veil, over the cap. However, it iswise to avoid all the white-spored species. None of theochre-spored spe
Elementary Agriculture and Horticulture / authorized by the Minister of Education . black, ochre, purple-brown, or pink. The deadly-poisonous forms are found inthe first division ; consequently, unless absolutely mushrooms which have white gills or spores should beeaten. The poisonous fungi of the white-spored divisionbelonsr to the genus Amanifa which has the following P,2 ELEMEXTARY AGRICULTURE cliaracteristics—the ring around the stem, the enp at tliel)ase, and tlie volva, or veil, over the cap. However, it iswise to avoid all the white-spored species. None of theochre-spored species is good and they should all be common edible mushroom belongs to the pink-sporeddivision, and it is not known that any of the black, purple-l)rown, or pink forms are poisonous. None of the puS-l)alls is poisonous. (See illustrations.) In a general way all mushrooms decay very quickly andshould not be eaten when stale, because ])tomaine poisons,due to partial decomposition, may develop, and, if they do,serious results may follow. (Eefer to Mushrooms, Atkinson.). 15. Poisonous species of muslirooni. 1. Immature form; 2, formnearly mature; 3, mature individual, volva, or cup; E. gills;P. pileus, or cap, with remains of volva on the surface;A. ring; B. stalk. Exercise 10: A part of one afternoon in October should* be devotedby the whole school to searching for mushrooms. Thespecimens may be brought to the class-room and classified OCTOBER: EXERCISES ?.3 as indicated above. A beautiful spore-print, sbowingclearly the colour of the spores, may be obtained by plac-ing the cap of the mushroom, gills down, on a ])aper, whiteor dark-coloured, depending on the colour expected, cover-ing it with an inverted bowl, dish, or hat, and leavingit for a few hours.
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