NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 



mius oreades) may in their season be easily gathered. 

 It is, indeed, surprising that this last species is not 

 better known and more used. It is excellent and 

 can be readily dried so as to be kept for winter use. 

 A wide-awake mycophagist may also in our streets 

 and parks find casual dishes of Coprinus micaceus, 

 Eypholoma incertum, or Hypholoma appendiculatwn, 

 Collybia velutipes and some puffballs by seizing the 

 right moment, before the lawn mower or the destroy- 

 ing foot of the small boy or the too rapid natural pro- 

 cess of decay has removed them. So also consider- 

 able patches of the Inky Coprinus (Coprinus atra- 

 mentarius') when once discovered may furnish a suc- 

 cession of crops. 



Besides the above, however, not many species 

 offer any very reliable supplies. It may almost be 

 said that they are only made use of by those who are 

 interested in them as a subject of study. By the 

 curious, in good woods in summer, almost daily sup- 

 plies may, in places frequented by summer holiday- 

 makers, be obtained of certain woods-loving species, 

 e.g., Clitocybe infundibuliformis, Collybia radicata, 

 Collybia platyphylla, Pleurotus ostreatus and sapidus, 

 Cantharellus cibarius and several Hydnums, Rus- 

 sulas and Boleti; but there would not seem to be 

 any considerable use made anywhere in this country 

 of wild-growing fungi. We may except perhaps the 

 morels and large puffballs, such as Calvatia gigantea, 

 and, of course, the common Field Mushroom (Agari- 

 cus campester} ; many country dwellers do know and 

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