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kinds do well to let them all alone. There is, however, no 

 good reason why persons who will take a little pains to become 

 acquainted with these plants should not be able to avoid the 

 dangerous ones and to enjoy the edible ones. It is the object 

 of this paper to call attention to the poisonous ones, rather 

 than to point out the harmless ones. For the former are com- 



Fig. 4.- 



-Flv Aoaric. roisonoiis. 



paratively few, and being once known so as to be avoided a 

 great part of the danger of mushroom eating is removed. 



According to popular belief, mushrooms are edible and 

 toadstools are poisonous; the botanist calls them all mush- 



