82 EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. 



has been shown to be a fallacy, and now 

 that they are admitted to be only a minority, 

 further knowledge and wider experience is 

 more likely to tend in the direction of still 

 further diminution than in increase. It 

 cannot be too often urged that in nearly all 

 the cases of mishaps from eating poisonous 

 fungi, such mishaps have resulted from most 

 culpable negligence or gross ignorance, 

 especially in the case of adults, and in 

 children from the propensity to eat anything 

 which it is possible to masticate. 



