EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. 



EDIBLE MUSHROOMS. 



The number of kinds here enumerated is 

 Comparatively small, but it includes all the 

 best, the most available, and indeed all that 

 are essential to be popularly known, of the 

 two hundred, and upwards, of edible species 

 hitherto known to have occurred in the 

 British Islands. The residue consists of 

 such kinds as are of inferior quality, and 

 largely of species which have been found so 

 rarely that their mention could have served 

 no useful purpose. Undoubtedly it is more 

 satisfactory that some twenty or thirty 

 sound species should be known and recog- 

 nized, especially if sufficiently common to 



