CHAPTER IX. 
MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI. 
By 
THOMAS LANGTON, M.A., LL.B. 
For probably fifty years persons who have 
received scientific training have been studying the 
fungi of particular districts in the United States, 
and have from time to time published the results of 
their researches; but no persons so qualified have 
made much investigation into the fungi of Canada 
or even of Ontario, or, if investigations have been 
made, the results have not been published so as to 
be generally accessible. The Geological Survey, 
which has for many years been compiling a Catalogue 
of Canadian Plants, has not yet reached the fungi, 
and so far as I have been able to learn has made 
very little preparation for making a list of them. 
There have not been wanting, however, amateurs 
who have as a recreation collected the larger or more 
conspicuous fungi which they have met with, and 
have either endeavoured themselves to identify them 
or have sent them to experts in the United States 
for identification, and have experimented in them as 
delicacies for the table. 
Of recent years there has been a considerable popu- 
lar inclination towards the study of at least the 
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