Contents 



The preparation of rough-dried plants for the herbarium 



Mounting 



Sections ..... 

 Poisoning herbarium specimens . 



CHAPTER XV : Fungi for the Table 

 Cautions for the inexperienced . 

 The food value of fungi 

 To keep mushrooms temporarily 

 To prepare the edible agarics for cooking 

 To toast agarics . 

 To bake agarics . 

 To broil agarics . 

 Mushrooms stewed 

 To prepare russulas 

 To prepare fungi with milky juice 



Lactarius deliciosus 



Lactarius volemus 

 To prepare amanitas . 

 To prepare chanterelles 

 To fry chanterelles 

 To prepare coprini — ink caps 

 To prepare boleti 

 To prepare Hydnum repandum 

 To prepare morels 

 To prepare beefsteak fungus 



For salad 



Minced 

 To prepare gyromitras 



To prepare woody pore-bearing fungi — Polyporas 

 To prepare clavarias and branched hvdnum 

 To cook clavarias 

 To prepare puffballs . 

 To cook puffballs 

 To cook the giant puffball . 

 Puffball salad 



List of Authorities Consulted 



Abbreviations of Names of Botanists with Explanations 



Index and Glossary 



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