NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 
The only fungus student of Toronto that I am 
aware of who has made public anything of his 
researches is also one of the earliest. In 1871, 
Daniel Knode Winder published a pamphlet of 
twenty-four pages “to enable the reader to identify 
our best species of mushrooms.” This little book 
contained descriptions, with figures, of seven of the 
principal edible species and a catalogue of 108 
species collected by the author, of which he specified 
thirty-seven which he had himself eaten. He does 
not say in what district his collections were made. 
If the thirty-seven specially mentioned were found 
near Toronto, there are ten of them which I have 
not met with, viz. (adopting the author’s nomen- 
clature), Agaricus gambosus, Agaricus odorus, Agari- 
cus rachodes, Agaricus prunulus, Agaricus villaticus, 
Agaricus excoriatus, Agaricus orcella, Hygrophorus 
pratensis, Hygrophorus niveus, and Hygrophorus 
virgineus; and of the others in his list there are 
forty which I have either not met with or not iden- 
tified. 
Any collecting that I have done has been largely 
confined to places within easy reach of Toronto, 
including, however, some places outside of the fifty- 
mile radius from Toronto, such as the Muskoka 
Lakes and the shores of some parts of the Georgian 
Bay. In all, I have found probably about four hun- 
dred species, but of these I have not been able to feel 
sure of the identification of more than 150. I have 
kept descriptions, and in most cases drawings or 
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