Index and Glossary 



Pinkish puffball, 125. 

 Pistachio nuts, 78. 

 Pistil of St. Johnswort, 

 6. 



— of violet, 6. 

 Pistil Clavaria, loi. 

 Pistillaria, 98. 

 Pleurotus, 32. 



— ostreatus, 57. 



— sapidus, 58. 



— ulmarius, 58. 

 Pliny, 135. 

 Pluteus, 37. 



— cervinus, 87. 

 Poison Amanita, 48. 

 Poisoning, cases of, 49. 



— of herbarium sheets, 



150. 



— recipes for, 150. 

 Poisonous, 48, 49, 151. 

 Pollen, 4, 6. 

 Polypodium vulgare, 6. 

 Polyporacese, 31, 42, 102, 



109. 

 Polypori, no. 



— to prepare, 155. 

 Polyporus, 42. 



— arcularius, 112. 



— circinatus, 113. 



— conchatus, ill. 



— f omentarius, no. 



— megaloma, no. 



— perennis, in. 



— pergamenus, in. 



— squamosus, 112. 



— sulphureus, in. 



— velutinus, in. 

 Pores, 14 ; the openings 



of the spore-bearing 

 tubes. 



— easily separating from 



the adjoining tissue, 

 44, 102. 



— in radiating rows, 102. 



— in the form of tubes 



whose mouths are 

 separated, 44, lo2. 



— long-hexagonal, 43. 



Pores, permanently united 

 to adjoining tissue, 

 42, 102. 



— separating with diffi- 



culty, 45. 



— to prepare woody, 155. 



Pouch fungi, 14, 23, 123. 



Pruinose, 146 ; as if frost- 

 ed with a bloom or 

 powder. 



Psathyra, 39, 82. 



Psathyrella, 40, 92. 



Psilocybe, 39, 82. 



Protoplasm, 144 ; the vis- 

 cid, contractile, semi- 

 fluid substance of 

 an animal or vege- 

 table cell. 



Protozoa, 144 ; unicellular 

 microscopic animals. 



Pterula, 99. 



Puffballs, 3, 4, 123. 



— salad, 155. 



— to cook, 155. 

 Purple Boletus, 107. 

 Pycnodon, 94. 



Radulum, 94. 

 Resupinate, 31. 

 Ring, 12. 



— movable, 63. 

 Rodman's mushroom, 76. 

 Romans, i. 



Rough-dried plants, 149. 

 Russia, 49. 



Russula, 3, 35. 



— care of spores, 148. 



— emetica, 68. 



— heterophylla, 70. 



— to prepare for cooking, 



154- 



— virescens, 69. 



Salmon fungus, 9. 

 Saprophytes, 123. 

 Scaly Lentinus, 56. 

 Schizophyllum, 33, 67. 

 Scleroderma, 133. 

 166 



Scleroderma vulgare, 134. 

 Sclerodermatales, 25, 133. 

 Seed-boxes, 6, 8. 

 Sensitive plant, 89. 

 Shagg^-mane, ii,v, viii, 90. 

 Shelley, i, 2, 89. 

 Silver fir, 6. 

 Simblum, 26. 



— rubescens, 122. 

 Sinuate, 35 ; said of gills 



which have a notch or 

 recess near the stem. 



Slime fungi, 144. 



Smallest Earth-star, 130. 



Smith, Rev. Gerard, 3. 



Smokeballs, 123. 



Smooth Lepiota, 64. 



Smuts, 2, 14, 22. 



Sparassis crispa, 99. 



Spathularia, 21, 138. 



— velutipes, 138. 

 Species, 7, 16. 

 Specimens, 7. 



— care of, 147. 

 Spencer, 2, 5. 

 Sphaeriales, 136. 

 Sphaerobolus, 133. 

 Spines, 14, 41. 

 Spore-dust to stanch blood, 



127. 

 Spore print, 4. 



— receptacle, 10. 

 Spore-sac fungi, 9, 17, 18, 



135- 

 Spores, II ; single cells 

 which serve the same 

 purpose for fungi as 

 seeds do for flowering 

 plants. 



— black, 32, 46, 89-92. 



— brown, 38, 73-83. 



— colour, 4. 



— collecting of, 147. 



— dark brown, 32, 73-83. 



— dissemination of, 4, 



118,126,131,133,137. 



— elliptical, 72. 



— fusiform, 40. 



