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work, dealing with such fungi, and never even taste unknown 

 forms. These plants offer abundant, cheap, and moderately- 

 nutritious food, but the greatest care should be taken to 

 learn thoroughly the appearance of wholesome kinds and 

 also, as before given, the characteristics found in the deadly 

 forms. 



Ten edible mushrooms. IJelow is a list of ten perfectly 

 wholesome species or groups, most of which have no simi- 

 larity to poisonous forms, and all perfectly distinct and 

 most easily determined by slight attention to characteristic 

 features : — 



1. Morels, brownish, wrinkled, spongy, hollow, on the 

 ground, in JNIay. 



2. Puffballs, when white-fleshed and solid, not a single 

 dangerous form. 



o. Commercial mushrooms, often wild, ring on the 

 stem, gills pink, ageing to dark brown ; plant gray brown- 

 ish, with short stalk. 



4. Fairy ring, small, buff, in grass, forming rings. 



5. Coral mushrooms, like branching corals, white, brown, 

 buff, on ground and dead wood. 



6. Vermillion Chanterelle, very small, brilliant vermil- 

 lion, gills blunt, shallow, running down stalk. 



7. Sulphur mushroom, on dead logs, stumps, salmon 

 above, sulphur below ; a pore form of bracket shape (see 

 next study). 



8. Honey mushrooms, stump bases in autumn; in great 

 clusters; buff with whitish gills. 



9. Green russula, cap moldgreen, stalk short and with 

 gills white ; on ground. 



10. Violet cap, whole plant violet tinted. 



Type 7. I^kacket Fungi 



Habitat. These fungi are commonly found on stumps, 

 dead trees, and logs. They are easily preserved. Hunt for 



