. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 118.—Carrageen (Chomlnts cz-i-s/xi-s, Carrageen Family, Gigartinrircfc.)Various forms of the seaweed, about natural size, the form a showint;the fruit as oval embedded in the branches. The wholeplant is dark red or purplish when alive. (Luerssen.) by cooking. Unless one is well acquainted with thepeculiarities by which edible and sorts may at oncebe distinguished, it is surely both foolish and dangerous togather wild mushrooms to eat; nevertheless, such knowledgeis not difficult to acquire with the aid of g
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 118.—Carrageen (Chomlnts cz-i-s/xi-s, Carrageen Family, Gigartinrircfc.)Various forms of the seaweed, about natural size, the form a showint;the fruit as oval embedded in the branches. The wholeplant is dark red or purplish when alive. (Luerssen.) by cooking. Unless one is well acquainted with thepeculiarities by which edible and sorts may at oncebe distinguished, it is surely both foolish and dangerous togather wild mushrooms to eat; nevertheless, such knowledgeis not difficult to acquire with the aid of good pictures andcareful descriptions, and to those who spend much time in thecountry the information may be of not a little value. On the subject of poisonous plants we shall have moreto saj in a subsequent chapter. The only safe rule is for aperson to avoid touching, and on no account to eat, any part ofa plant which he does not surely recognize and know to be harm- VEGETABLE FOODS IN GENERAL 113. Fig. 119.—Field [ , Clill-inusluooni Family,Agaricacece). Fruit-bodies, natural size, in various stages of , button stage. in which the regions of stalk and cap are just dis-tinguishable; h, a somewhat later stage, cut vertically to show thegills just appearing below the cap; c, a still later stage, similarly cut,in which the gills now fully formed are yet protected below by themembranous veil; d, stage in which the cap is almost expanded,showing on its under side the veil partly torn from the edge and ex-posing the pink gills; e, final stage in which the cap is fully expanded,and the viil, now entirely free from the rim, remains only as a ringaround the stalk. (Luersscn.)—The gills, at first pink, turn finallydark purplish brown, owing to the formation upon them of dark dust-like spores which fall from the exposed gills, are carried away by thewind, and give rise to new plants when favorably placed upon well-manured ground. These spor
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