_ TEXT-BOOK OF BRITISH FUNGI. 121 
book treats of the General Features, Discrimi wom 
neces 
provolingly arranged according to the scheme of Fries. There is 
a chapter on the Chemistry and Toxicology of Fungi, a Calendar 
of Fungi, rer an explanation of mycolo ‘Ben terms. The most 
with recipes for cooking. Part of this is no sdoubt valuable, but 
species are given that are not “ British,” and amongst the ‘ edible 
species many highly poisonous plants appear. Amongst = latter 
Lactarius controversus is said to be “ much eaten in Fran 
paniment of a draught of rancid train Some of the so-called 
esculents are tough subjects, as Dor us ; squamosus and P. fomen- 
tarius ; we venture to say that if anyone s succeed in ‘getting 
ie quivering, shaking sate be of fungoid jelly, hanging from 
dead, cankered and festered stumps and branches. One of these 
fungi, Tremella pe the 
said to be “tasteless,” is also said to be used ‘‘ abroad” to colour 
and thicken soup. The word Ghioad ” is rather vague for these 
exact times, and for that matter so is the word “‘soup’’; we fancy 
that even Bumble’s «« porochial paupers”’ would look on such 
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doctored ‘‘soup” with a suspicious eye. Tremella moriformis, it 
seems, is also an aahilenits although it is steered *¢ difficult to 
do anything with these Tremellas, except them to soup.’ 
Although in past times we have eaten many fa ungi, we now, at the 
close of our career, prefer our soup without the slobbery, shivering 
eaten, it seems, "abroad," —but ‘at Siiae, when as plen 
and other food (!) scarce.” Verpa capes alee whic, is said = 
r. Hay to oe on ‘ peo! sites,’ : really 3 grows where 
en ordure has lain,—a very “ rene, one sada think, for 
an object of food, to an pond fond of the good things of the 
table, . 
