Contents 



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The preparation of rough-dried plants for the herbarium 149 



Mounting 149 



Sections . . . . . . . .150 



Poisoning herbarium specimens 1 50 



CHAPTER XV: FUNGI FOR THE TABLE . . . .151 



Cautions for the inexperienced 151 



The food value of fungi 152 



To keep mushrooms temporarily . . . .153 

 To prepare the edible agarics for cooking . . .153 



To cook agarics 153 



Mushrooms stewed 153 



To prepare russulas 1 54 



To prepare fungi with milky juice . . . .154 



Lactarius deliciosus 154 



Lactarius volemus -154 



To prepare amanitas . . . . . .154 



To prepare chanterelles 1 54 



To fry chanterelles . . . . . . . 1 54 



To prepare cop rini ink caps 154 



To prepare boleti 1 54 



To prepare Hydnum repandum . . . 1 54 



To prepare morels 1 54 



To prepare beefsteak fungus 155 



For salad -155 



Minced . 155 



To prepare gyromitras 155 



To prepare woody pore-bearing fungi Polyporae. . 155 

 To prepare clavarias and branched hydnums . .155 

 To cook clavarias . . . . . . .155 



To prepare and cook puffballs 155 



SOME USEFUL BOOKS ON MUSHROOMS . . .157 



LIST OF POISONOUS OR SUSPECTED MUSHROOMS . .159 

 LIST OF EDIBLE MUSHROOMS ...... 161 



ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES OF BOTANISTS WITH EXPLANATIONS 165 

 INDEX AND GLOSSARY 167 



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