MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI 
of Agaricus silvicola or Agaricus silvaticus suff- 
ciently resemble some forms of Amanita phalloides 
as to make great care necessary in eating them. 
Musuroom CuuirivaTIoNn. 
Not long ago it was reported that in France a 
commercially successful experiment had been made 
in cultivating Pleurotus cornucopioides, a fungus nor- 
mally growing on wood, but not, so far as I know, 
found in Canada. In this country, however, no pro- 
gress seems to be made in the cultivation of edible 
fungi, other than the common field mushroom, which 
alone is extensively grown for the market. I have, 
indeed, from time to time seen in our shops for sale 
morels and not a few specimens of the shaggy-maned 
mushroom (Coprinus comatus), which latter went by 
the name of “ French morels”; but I was not able 
to learn whence they were procured. Most likely 
they had been gathered by an unusually enterprising 
person from some favoured place where they were 
particularly abundant without artificial aids. Some 
such places I have occasionally seen, where for sev- 
eral years in succession a crop springs up sufficiently 
large to make it worth while gathering for near-by. 
family use, though not for the market. : 
Appended is a list (of course, far from complete) 
of fungi to be found near Toronto. It has been con- 
fined to those the identification of which has seemed 
to me to be satisfactory. For the most part, these 
are fungi of common occurrence in temperate coun- 
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