CHAPTER IX. 

 MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI. 



By 

 THOMAS LANGTON, M.A., LL.B. 



FOE probably fifty years persons who have 

 received scientific training have been studying the 

 fungi of particular districts in the United States, 

 and have from time to time published the results of 

 their researches; but no persons so qualified have 

 made much investigation into the fungi of Canada 

 or even of Ontario, or, if investigations have been 

 made, the results have not been published so as to 

 be generally accessible. The Geological Survey, 

 which has for many years been compiling a Catalogue 

 of Canadian Plants, has not yet reached the fungi, 

 and so far as I have been able to learn has made 

 very little preparation for making a list of them. 

 There have not been wanting, however, amateurs 

 who have as a recreation collected the larger or more 

 conspicuous fungi which they have met with, and 

 have either endeavoured themselves to identify them 

 or have sent them to experts in the United States 

 for identification, and have experimented in them as 

 delicacies for the table. 



Of recent years there has been a considerable popu- 

 lar inclination towards the study of at least the 

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