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394 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Mushrooms of America—Edible and Poisonous. By Julius A. Palmer, Jr. Prang 
rhea Boston whey “Chart or Roy. 8°. pp. 4. 12 col. plates, 
take as great an interest in it as the general public. It is ana mirable and 
much needed work, intended to int uce the novice to a number of common 
that one opt — gather mushrooms for the table indiscriminately, but as this 
can not e, it is some consolation to learn that, although rs in indi- 
viduals, has: a comparatively few really deadly species. Four of the most 
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avoided. The remainder of the work embraces a dozen and a half edible spe- 
cies. Almost everyone will recognize some old i goo among them, and 
regret that their value as ‘teed had not been kno 
Although mushrooms are plants, they beavers pees Bont ‘qualities of flesh, 
some extent muy replace this costly article of diet. The ae 
logique, of France, devoted to diff sing a better wledge of the value o 
mushrooms for as afew meml in this country; but a work like the 
present is a strong additional agent for obtaining the same result. The certain 
recognition of the different kinds is — to securing and maintaining PoP he nie 
larity, All that word and picture ean do toward this is here furni i sce 
ates are naturally and artistically. colored with the skill which has brought 
rang & Co. deserved fame, and the text is ee and ee 
e work is issued in three ae yoo a — ‘for the wall, loose seat : 
a portfolio, and bound in book form. It is to be hoped that it ‘will bey with 
semen ‘ie 9 sale to warrant the publishers in continuing a work, as t a 
d egions, eo oo working ont oi the leaf structures from 
tr thon wh are ei pee a ome rege is not only a os reste wk 
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to think cord pet, t also a very good lesson to 
