TREE MUSHROOMS 



The last of these four mushrooms has been known 

 for a long time. It is not poisonous. The Greeks and 

 Romans were very fond of it. They called it food of 

 the gods. Caesar's mushroom and the imperial mush- 

 room are other names for it. 



TREE MUSHROOMS 



AMONG the fungi growing on decaying stumps and 

 trees is a form known as the oyster mushroom. It was 



given this name 

 because its shape 

 is much like that 

 of the oyster shell. 

 These mush- 

 rooms grow in 

 clusters and some- 

 times overlap each 

 other. They are 

 often irregular in 

 shape because of 

 this crowding. A 

 single mushroom 

 may be five or 

 six inches broad. 

 They grow side- 



The Oyster Mushroom. ways from the tree 



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