Mushrooms and toadstools : how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi; with figures of twenty-nine edible and thirty-one poisonous species / [Worthington George Smith].

Worthington George Smith

Date:: 1876

Credit: Mushrooms and toadstools : how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi; with figures of twenty-nine edible and thirty-one poisonous species / [Worthington George Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. • Oa»> Bundled Stump-Mushroom. Fig. 1. {Agaricus [Hypholomd] fascicular is.) 331. This species occurs everywhere at the bases of old stumps^ always in groups. The stem is hollow, and the gills are greenish and sub-deliquescent. There is a heavy odour attached to it, and the taste is bitter and repulsive. Bed Juice-Mushroom. Fig. 2. {Hygrophorus conicus.) 482. This truly handsome fungus is common in pastures and roadsides. It turns purple-black when bruised, broken, or old, and it has a strong and very forbidding odour. It is of a succulent substance, and is not unfrequently a brilliant yellow or deep orange, in place of crimson or scarlet.$

Mushrooms and toadstools : how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi; with figures of twenty-nine edible and thirty-one poisonous species / [Worthington George Smith].

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