CHAPTER XXIX. 

 FUNGI (Concluded). 



BASIDIUM FUNGI (Concluded). 

 Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puf balls, etc. 



458. The mushrooms. The word mushroom was formerly 

 applied to certain of the fleshy gill-bearing fungi, and probably was 



Fig. 266. 

 A poisonous "mushroom" (Amanita muscaria), the fly agaric. 



first used for the common cultivated mushroom (Agaricus campes- 

 tris}, which also grows in pastures, lawns, etc. Some use the word 

 as synonymous with all the basidium fungi. But this seems too 



To THE TEACHER. Either the common mushroom (which usually can be 

 obtained in the market during the winter) or one of the other agarics should 

 be studied. The group of fungi can be farther illustrated by a number of the 

 bracket fungi, fairy clubs, puffballs, earth stars, etc., which are easily obtained 

 and preserved dry. It would be an excellent plan to have one or two of the 

 poisonous Amanitas preserved dry, or in alcohol, for illustration. 



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