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crimson. This crimson lining bears the spores in little sacs all over its 

 surface. 



The Morels. — This mushroom family contains no member that is poisonous 

 and the members are very unlike any other family in appearance. They are very 

 pretty with their creamy white, thick swollen stems and a cap more or less coni- 

 cal, made up of the deep-celled meshes of an unequal net-work. The outside 

 edges of the net-work are yellowish or brownish when the morel is young and 

 edible but later turn dark as the spores develop. 



In some species the stems are comparatively smooth and in others their surface 

 is more or less wrinkled. The spores are borne in the depressions of the net- 

 work. These mushrooms should not be eaten after the cells change from creamy 

 white to brownish. 



References. — These lessons have been based on " Mushrooms," a 

 most excellent and practical book with many beautiful pictures written 

 and illustrated by Professor George F. Atkinson and published by Andrus 

 & Church, Ithaca, N. Y., price $3.00. '' The Mushroom Book,'' Marshall, 

 fully illustrated, price $4.00, Doubleday, Page & Co. " One Thousand 

 American Fungi," by Charles Mcllvaine, Bowen-Merrile Co., illustrated; 

 $5.00. " Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms," by Wm. Hamilton 

 Gibson, very fully illustrated, Harpers, $3.50. 



THE NEWT, EFT OR " SALAMANDER " 

 After rain in spring or summer one may see these orange-red little 

 fellows crawling along roads or woodland paths, and since they are 

 rarely seen except after a rain the wise people of old declared they 

 " rained down," which was an easy way for explaining their presence. 

 This little, orange eft 

 or red spotted sala- 

 mander may be kept 

 in an aquarium which 

 has in it an object, as 

 a stone or clump of 

 moss, which projects 

 above the water. For 

 food it should be 

 given small earth- 

 worms or leaves 

 covered with plant- 

 lice. In this way 

 it may be studied at 

 leisure. The Red Spotted Nezvt. 



