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The Book of Woodcraft 



WHOLESOME TOADSTOOLS 



Witli all these warnings and cautions about the poison- 

 ous kinds before us, we shall now be able to approach in a 

 proper spirit, the subject of Toadstool eating, and consider 



Oyster Mushrooms. 



the second of our groups. These are the good safe Toad- 

 stools or Mushrooms ■ — for it is the same thing. 



The Common Mushroom {Agaricus campestris). Known 

 at once by its general shape and smell, its pink or brown 

 gills, white flesh, brown spores and solid stem. It grows 

 in the open, never in the woods. 



Oyster Mushroom {Pleurotus ostreatus). Many of us 



