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EDIBLE MUSHROOMS 



present book on fungi being especially the presenta- 

 tion of only such varieties as are conspicuously self- 

 placarded by some distinctive marks for identification, 

 these delicious spine-bearing or "hedgehog" mush- 

 rooms should of course be included — a genus which 



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SECTION OF A HYDNUM 



cannot be mistaken for any other, and which is tn- 

 stantly recognized by its own peculiar character, al- 

 ready mentioned, its spore surface being beset with 

 soft, drooping spines instead of pores or gills. There 

 are more than a score of species. The two more or 

 less common with us are the Hydnum repandum, in 

 outline suggesting an ordinary mushroom, and of 



