MUSHKOOMS AND OTHEK FUNGI 



of Agaricus silvicola or Agaricus silvaticus suffi- 

 ciently resemble some forms of Amanita phalloides 

 as to make great care necessary in eating them. 



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 MUSHBOOM CULTIVATION. 



Not long ago it was reported that in France a 

 commercially successful experiment had been made 

 in cultivating Pleurotus cornucopioides, a fungus nor- 

 mally growing on wood, but not, so far as I know, 

 found in Canada. In this country, however, no pro- 

 gress seems to be made in the cultivation of edible 

 fungi, other than the common field mushroom, which 

 alone is extensively grown for the market. I have, 

 indeed, from time to time seen in our shops for sale 

 morels and not a few specimens of the shaggy-maned 

 mushroom (Coprinus comatus\ which latter went by 

 the name of " French morels " ; but I was not able 

 to learn whence they were procured. Most likely 

 they had been gathered by an unusually enterprising 

 person from some favoured place where they were 

 particularly abundant without artificial aids. Some 

 such places I have occasionally seen, where for sev- 

 eral years in succession a crop springs up sufficiently 

 large to make it worth while gathering for near-by: 

 family use, though not for the market. 



Appended is a list (of course, far from complete) 

 of fungi to be found near Toronto. It has been con- 

 fined to those the identification of which has seemed 

 to me to be satisfactory. For the most part, these 

 are fungi of common occurrence in temperate coun- 



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