INDEX 



331 



Chestnut-burr fungus, 294. 

 Chestnut tongue. See Fistulina. 

 Chicken flavor in mushrooms, 303, 316. 

 Chinese caterpillar fungus, 296. 

 Cicada fungus, 295, 

 Classification of fungi, 77, 78. 

 Claudius, Emperor, poisoned, 59. 

 Clavariei, 231, 247—256. 

 Clavaria, Various, 10, 11; — aniethys- 



tina^ fastigiata, Jlava^ rugosa, stricta^ 



umbrina, 255 ; — botrytis, 256 ; — for- 



mosa, 247 ; to cook, 317 ; used as 



salad, 319 ; to dry, 322. 

 Club fungi. See Clavaria. 

 Cogomelos. See Pasture Mushroom. 

 Colored plates of the book, 39. 

 Coniomycetes, 78. 

 Consomme from mushrooms, 315. 

 Cooke, Rev. Dr. M. C, 40, 59, 214, 



237, 273, 295, 306, 307, 313, 315. 



Bibliography, Nos. 12, 16, 17, 326 ; 



No. 18, 327. 

 Cooking furigi, 72, 306-322. 

 Coprinus, 87; to dry, 321 \—iitmmen- 



tiir ius. I I. 27, 2 8, 161, 163 ; — cotiin- 



tus, II, 87, 154-160. 

 Coral fungi^ See Clavaria. 

 Cordier, F. S., 246, 248, 306, 319. 



Bibliography, No. 25, 327. 

 Correspondents, 2-6. 

 Cortinarius castaneus, cinnaniomeus, 



violaceus, 11. 

 Cosmopolitan fungi, 12. 

 Couleiuelle. See Pasture Mushroom, 

 Crimson Boletus, 213. 

 Cryptogamia, the, 7. 

 Crystals on drying fungi, 227. 

 Culinary "treatment" of fungi, 72, 



214, 304. 

 Cultivation of mushrooms, 85, 86. Bib- 

 liography, No. 8, 325 ; No. 23, 327. 

 "Cup," the, in Amanita, 29, 33, 47, 



48, 57, 74. 273- 

 Currie, Dr., on Amanita poison, 60. 

 Curtis, Rev. M. A., pioneer American 



mycophagist, g, 32. 4°- 



Curtis's, Rev. M. A . , list of edible mush- 

 rooms, g-l 2 ; quoted, 219, 245, 301, 

 318. Bibliography, No. i, 325. 



Cystidium, the, 77, 256. 



Deadly mushrooms and toadstools, 



2, 3, 43-74. 



Deaths by fungi, 43, 61. 



Decaying fungi, 6, 25, 30, 278. 



Delagrave, C. H. Bibliography, No. 

 26, 327. 



Desiccationof fungi, 107, 119, 246, 262, 

 321. 



Diagnosis and treatment of mushroom 

 poiiioning, 38, 63-68. 



Doe-skin mushroom. See Nydnum 

 repandiirn. 



Dried fungi. See Desiccation of fungi. 



Dufour, J. Constantin and Leon. Bib- 

 liography, No. 32, 327. 



Dust-like fungi, 78. 



Economic fungology, 7, 13, 14. 



Edible Amanitse, 9, 12, 73. 



Edible mushrooms, number of species, 



2, 7, 32, 60; list of, by Curtis, 9-12; 



popular tests for identification, 22, 



23; become poisonous from contact 



vi'ith Amanita, 70. 

 Elm mushroom, 10, 26, 27, 148-154, 



303. 312. 



Elvellacei, 231. See Helvella. 



Emetic mushroom. .See Russula. 



Epicurean perversity, 72. 



European and American fungi iden- 

 tical, 12. 



European mycologists, 14, 326, 327. 



Fairy-ring mushroom, 95, lOi-ioS; 

 cause of "ring." io2, 107 ; recipesfoi 

 cooking, 107, 108; false or poison- 

 ous, 108, 113. 



False Champignon, 108. 



Farlow, W. G, Bibliography, No. 9, 

 326. 



" Fish mushroom," 154, 303, 312. 



