MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI 
edible fungi. Not many years ago there was scarcely 
any literature on the subject which was easily avail- 
able, or was of much use, on this side of the Atlantic, 
but within the last ten or twelve years several popular 
handbooks have been published in the United States 
which are more or less useful in Canada; and there 
must be spread over the country quite a number of 
persons who are examining, and sometimes adding 
to the supplies of the domestic table, the edible fleshy 
fungi of their neighbourhood, without venturing to 
put forth to the public any account of them. It is 
to be hoped that before long some of these workers | 
will publish in some way at least descriptions or 
lists of what they have found, so that others may be 
helped and a foundation may be laid for a general 
list of the fungi of Canada. 
There are undoubtedly several of such persons 
within the district with which we are at present con- 
cerned, viz., the district within a radius of fifty 
miles from Toronto. A district so defined would 
include almost the whole of the counties of York, 
Peel, Halton, Wentworth, Lincoln, and Dufferin, as 
well as large parts of Welland, Wellington, Simcoe, 
Ontario and Durham. In these counties the neigh- 
bourhoods of Fergus, Elora, Guelph, Preston, Ham- 
ilton, Orangeville, Georgetown, Oshawa, Niagara 
Falls and the Niagara River Gorge, Caledon Moun- 
tain, and the shores of Lake Simcoe and Lake Scugog, 
have long been fruitful botanizing fields, and should 
be able to return a good account of the fungi. 
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