INDEX 



335 



Mushroom soup, 306, 307, 323. 



— spawn. See Mycelium. 



— spores. See Spores and Spore- 

 prints. 



— Stewed, 307, 308-311, 315-317. 



— tube. See Polyporei. 



— Testing new species of, for edibility, 

 33- 



— Whims of habitat of, 294. 

 Mycetes fungi, 77. 



Mycology and mycophagy, 3, 4, 7, 8. 



— Medical and economic, 7, 8, 13-15, 

 35, 277. 



Mycophagists of America, 8, 9. 



— Amateur, safe rules for, 38. 



Nero, 59; poisonous mushrooms used 



ijy. 43- 



Night, Fungi luminous by, 227 

 Nourishing properties of mushrooms, 



14- 



Oak-tongue fungus. See Fistulina. 

 Odor of Amanita poisonous, 69. 

 Omelet, Mushroom, 277, 278, 318. 

 Orcella, Agaric, 300. 

 Oyster mushroom, 10, 36,^2 7, 141-148; 

 to cook, 303, 311, 315. 



— flavor in fungi, 237, 247, 300, 303, 

 307, 310, 312. 



Pachyma cocos, 11. 



Palmer, Julius A., quoted: "Silver 

 test," 25, 32, 40 ; on Amanita poison, 

 61, 69-71, 184, 207 ; on mushroom 

 food, 303, 306, 311. Bibliography, 

 Nos. 2, 3, 325. 



Pasture, or parasol^ mushroom, 9, 13, 

 80, 113- 



Paulet, 306, 314. 



Paxillus involutus, 11. 



Payer, J. Bibliography, No. 27, 327. 



Peck, Prof. Charles H., 32, 40, 182, 

 237, 246. Bibliography, No. 4, 325. 



Persoon, 306, 316. 



Phosphorescence in fungi, 227. 



Pickled mushrooms, 319. 



Pie of mushrooms, 312, 315. 



Plates of the book, 39. 



Pliny on mushroom "tests," 25 ; on 

 poisonous mushrooms, 43, 59 ; on 

 edible mushrooms, 298. 



Poison-cup. See Amanita. 



Poison of Amanita, 43, 61 ; antidote, 

 68 ; poisoning by contact and odor, 

 69- 



Poisoning by fungi : Diagnosis and 

 treatment, 38, 63, 68 ; vinegar as 

 an antidote, 38, 71 ; antidote, 62, 

 68 ; Amanita, 2, 15, 43-74 ; poison- 

 ous species identified, 2, 15, 61 ; 

 popular poison " tests ' refuted, 

 17, 21-29 ; poisoning by contact, 

 30, 69. 



Poisons, fatal and minor, 2, 15, 17, 29, 

 30, 61. 



Polyporei, 78, 181-228; to dry, 321. 



Polyporus, various edible species of , 1 1 ; 

 — sulphureus, 11, 219, 303; to cook, 

 316; botanical character of, 181-184, 

 285. 



Popular discrimination between " toad- 

 stool" and "mushroom," 16-22; 

 popular distrust of fungi, 15. 



Pore-bearing mushrooms. See Boletus, 

 Polyporei, and Fistulina. 



Procerus mushroom, 10 ; pie of, 312. 



PufF-ball fungi, 11, 13, 27, 78, 231, 267, 

 299; gemmatum , 268; saccatmn, 268; 

 giganteum, 268, 318; dissemination 

 of spores of, 268, 277-280 ; medical 

 use of, 277 ; as food, 277, 318 ; to 

 cook, 318. 



" Punk," 37, 181. 



Puree of mushrooms, 307. 



RagoOt of mushrooms, 309, 316. 

 Ravenel, H. W. Bibliography, No. 7, 



325- 

 Recipes for cooking fungi, 72, 306- 



322. 

 "Ring" in mushrooms, 48, 85, 95. 



