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INDEX 



Fistulina hepatica, ii, 26, 27, 213, 

 299, 303; to cook, 314; as salad, 



319- 



Fly, Fungus attacking, 295. 



Fly-poison, Amanita, 27, 51, 52, 72, 

 See Amanita muscariits. 



Food, Fungi as, 8, 13-15, 35, 221, 245, 

 299-323. 



" Foxfire,"- 227. 



France, Fungus-eaters of, 14. 



Fried mushrooms, 313-318. 



Fries, Fungologist, 268. 



Fritters of fungi, 314, 318. 



Fungi. See, also. Toadstools, Mush- 

 rooms, and Moulds. 



— by mail, 4, 5. 



— Chemical constituents of, 14, 302. 



— Classification of, 77, 78. 



— Common tests for "Edible," and- 

 their reputation, 17-21, 24-29. 



— Coral. See Clavaria. 



— Crystals on, 227. 



— Cultivation of, 85, 88. Bibliog- 

 raphy, No. 8, 325'; No, 23, 327. 



— Desiccation of, 119, 246, 262, 301, 

 310, 321. 



— Economic, 7, 13. 



— Edible. See Agaricus Boletus, 

 Clavarei, Fistulina, Helvella, Morel, 

 Mushroom, and Puff-balls. 



— Fastidiousness in vegetation, 86-88, 

 294. 



— Gill-bearing (Agarics), 78, 178. 



— Hawk fed upon, 302. 



— Hygrometric properties of, iig. 



— Insects infesting, 25, 29, 34, 36- 

 38, 135- 



— List of works on, 325. 



— Medical, 277. 



— Menu for fungus repast, 323. 



— Miscellaneous, 231-274. 



— Mycelium, or spawn, of, 44, 45, 77, 

 85, 88, 92, 107. 



— Number of species of, 6. 30, 60. 



— on caterpillars and chrysalids, 295. 



— on chestnut-burr, 294. 



Ficngi on house-fly, 295. 



— opposed to cultivation, 86-88." 



— Ornamental forms of, 227. 



— Phosphorescent, 227. 



— Physiological features of, 15. 



— Poisoning by, 2, :5, 29; diagnosis 

 and treatment, 37 ; remedies, 38, 

 39 ; intoxication from, 59 ; antidotes, 

 62, 67, 68; report of poisoning case, 

 63-66 ; poisoning by contact and 

 odor, 6g; edible species inoculated 

 by contact, 70. 



— Popular distrust of, 15, 21. 



— Rapid decay of, 6, 25, 30. 



— Raw, eaten as salad, 248,- 319. 



— Recipes for cooking, 306-319. 



— simulating animal food, 15, 30, 302. 



— S|iores and Spore-print of, 277-296. 

 -^ Study, of, 7'. 



— traditions and superstitions, 22, 23. 



— Vegetation of, 44, 47, 85-92, 107, 

 294. 



— Whims of habitat of, 294. 

 Fungologists, Amateur, safe rules for, 



33- 

 Fungus food in Europe and America, 

 8, 13-15, 35, 299- 



— gnats, flies, and beetles, 37. 



Gasteromycetes, 78. 



Gathering mushrooms. Rules for, 35 , 36. 



Gautier, Dr. M. L., 62. Bibliograpli)', 



No. 29, 327. 

 Germany, Fungus-eaters in, 14. 

 Gill-bearing mushrooms, 75-1 78. 

 Gnats infesting fungi, 37. 

 Greville, R. R. Bibliography, No. 19, 



327- 

 "Grubs" in fungi, 25, 29, 34, 36-38, 



135. 



Harkness, Dr. H. W., 32, 245, 310. 

 Bibliography, No. 5, 325. 



Hawk fed upon Boleti, 302. 



Hawthorne, Nathaniel, allusion to fun- 

 gus phosphorescence, 228. 



