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
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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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    Trellised Clathrus. Pig. 3. (Clathrus cancellatus.) 917. I am indebted to tbe late Mrs. Grulson^ of Eastcliff^ near Teignmontli, Devon^ for tbe original plant from which this figure was taken. It is of extreme beauty and rarity^ seldom occm^ring in this country, but common enough in the south of Europe. The fetor exhaled from this species is highly disagree- able, and can be compared with nothing but itself. It is so horribly repulsive and loathsome as to make a mere examination of the plant a matter of the greatest difficulty. In the young state the odour is less strong, or altogether absent. Fetid Leather-fungus. Fig. 4. {ThelepJiora palmata.) 760. This soft fungus bears a distant resemblance to some species of Clavaria. It is uncommon, grows upon the ground, and possesses a very disagreeable odour. Olive-gilled Mushroom. Fig. 5. {Agaricus [HypJwloma] suhlateritius. 328. This plant is allied to fig. 1, and, like it, grows upon old stumps in woods, and has, too, a disagreeable smell. E 2