40 EDIBLE MUSHROOMS 



each, in addition to the extended description in the 

 text of the volume, is faced by a condensed description 

 for ready reference, the usual troublesome necessity 

 of turning the pages being thus avoided. 



In each plate dimension marks are shown which 

 indicate the expansion of the pileus or cap of the 

 fungus in an ideal specimen. 



In the preparation of this work, acknowledgments 



are specially due to Messrs. Julius A. Palmer and 



Charles Mcllvaine for the privilege of 



Acknowledg= liberal quotations from their published 



tnents works, especially with reference to the 



poisonous fungi. The volume is also 



further indebted for occasional extracts from the 



standard works of Prof. Chas. Peck, Mrs. T. J. Hus- 



sey. Rev. Dr. C. D. Badham, Rev. Dr. M. C. Cooke, 



Rev. J. M. Berkeley, Worthington Smith, and Rev. 



M. A. Curtis, all of whose volumes and various other 



contributions on the special subject of mycophagy 



are included in my bibliography on a later page. 



W. Hamilton Gibson 



October i, 1894 WASHINGTON, Conn. 



