Teach EKS Leaflet , 



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Second, avoid the young or button stages, since they are similar 

 in appearance in species that are edible and those that are poisonous. 



Third, avoid those that have milky juices, unless the juices are reddish 

 in color, the mushrooms should not be eaten. 



Fourth, avoid those with shiny, thin, or brightly colored caps, and 

 those with whitish or clay-colored spores. 



Fifth, no mushroom or puffball should be eaten after its meat has 

 begun to turn brown or has become infested with fly larvae. 



Lesson I 



HOW MUSHROOMS LIVE 



Purpose. — To enable the pupils to 

 understand the growth and habits of 

 these strange, seedless, leafless plants. 



Method and Material. — The ideal 

 method would be to study the mush- 

 rooms in the field and forest, making 

 an excursion for the purpose of collect- 

 ing as many species as possible. But 

 the lesson may be given from specimens 

 brought into the schoolroom by pupils, 

 care being taken to bring with them 

 the soil or dead wood or leaves on which 

 they were found growing. After study- 

 ing one species thus, encourage pupils 

 to bring in as many others as possible. 

 There are a few terms which the pui)ils 

 should learn to use, and the best method 

 of teaching them is to place the dia- 

 grams (see page 6) on the blackboard 

 and leave them there while these studies 

 are given. 



As mushrooms are especially good subjects for water-color and pencil 

 studies, it would add much to the interest of the work if each jnipil 

 or the school as a whole should finally have a portfolio of sketches 

 of all the species found. With each drawing there should be made 

 on a supplementary sheet a sporc-i)rint of the species. White paper 

 should be covered very thinly with whitc-of-cgg or mucilage so as to 

 hold fast the discharge spores when making these prints for port- 

 folio or herbarium. 



White form of the deadly aniaiiita 

 (A phalloidcs) . Note the form of 

 the ring and the cup at base of 

 stem. 



