Toadstools, mushrooms. Fungi, edible and poisonous : One thousand American Fungi; how to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous; giving full botanic descriptions / by Charles McIlvaine, assisted by Robert K. Macadam. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

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