NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 
mius oreades) may in their season be easily gathered. 
It is, indeed, surprising that this last species is not 
better known and more used. It is excellent and 
can be readily dried so as to be kept for winter use. 
A wide-awake mycophagist may also in our streets 
and parks find casual dishes of Coprinus micaceus, 
Hypholoma incertum, or Hypholoma appendiculatum, 
Collybia velutipes and some puffballs by seizing the 
right moment, before the lawn mower or the destroy- 
ing foot of the small boy or the too rapid natural pro- 
cess of decay has removed them. So also consider- 
able patches of the Inky Coprinus (Coprinus atra- 
mentarius) when once discovered may furnish a suc- 
cession of crops. 
Besides the above, however, not many species 
offer any very reliable supplies. It may almost be 
said that they are only made use of by those who are 
interested in them as a subject of study. By the 
curious, in good woods in summer, almost daily sup- 
plies may, in places frequented by summer holiday- 
makers, be obtained of certain woods-loving species, 
e.g., Clitocybe infundibuliformis, Collybia radicata, 
Collybia platyphylla, Pleurotus ostreatus and sapidus, 
Cantharellus cibarius and several Hydnums, Rus- 
sulas and Boleti; but there would not seem to be 
any considerable use made anywhere in this country 
of wild-growing fungi. We may except perhaps the 
morels and large puffballs, such as Calvatia gigantea, 
and, of course, the common Field Mushroom (Agari- 
cus campester) ; many country dwellers do know and 
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