NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 



The only fungus student of Toronto that I am 

 aware of who has made public anything of his 

 researches is also one of the earliest. In 1871, 

 Daniel Knode Winder published a pamphlet of 

 twenty-four pages " to enable the reader to identify 

 our best species of mushrooms." This little book 

 contained descriptions, with figures, of seven of the 

 principal edible species and a catalogue of 108 

 species collected by the author, of which he specified 

 thirty-seven which he had himself eaten. He does 

 not say in what district his collections were made. 

 If the thirty-seven specially mentioned were found 

 near Toronto, there are ten of them which I have 

 not met with, viz. (adopting the author's nomen- 

 clature), Agaricus gambosus, Agaricus odorus, Agari- 

 cus rachodes, Agaricus prunulus, Agaricus villaticus, 

 Agaricus excoriatus, Agaricus orcella, HygropJiorus 

 pratensis, Hygrophorus niveus, and HygropJiorus 

 virgineus; and of the others in his list there are 

 forty which I have either not met with or not iden- 

 tified. 



Any collecting that I have done has been largely 

 confined to places within easy reach of Toronto, 

 including, however, some places outside of the fifty- 

 mile radius from Toronto, such as the Muskoka 

 Lakes and the shores of some parts of the Georgian 

 Bay* In all, I have found probably about four hun- 

 dred species, but of these I have not been able to feel 

 sure of the identification of more than 150. I have 

 kept descriptions, and in most cases drawings or 

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