Index and Glossary 



Lycoperdon, section of, 

 124. 



— subincarnatum, 125. 

 Lycopodiums, 7. 



Majoon, 49 ; an intoxicat- 

 ing confection of 

 India. 



Maned agaric (see Coma- 

 tus), ii, v, viii, go. 



Marasmius, 33, 65. 



— care of spores, 149. 



— oreades, 66. 

 Marchantia polymorpha,7. 

 Masked Tricholoma, 72. 

 Medusa's head, 97. 

 Mendel, 152. 

 Membrane fungi, 14, 22. 

 Merulius, no. 



— lacrymans, no. 

 Mitrula, ±1. 



— vitellina, var. irregula- 



ris, 140. 

 Morels, 140, 154. 



— to prepare, 154. 

 Morchella, 21, 140, 141, 



142. 



— angusticeps, 142. 



— bispora, 142. 

 — ■ deliciosa, 142. 



— esculenta, 141, 142. 



— section of, 141. 



— semilibera, 142. 

 Mould, 2. 



— on bread, 9. 



— on food, 2. 



— on dead fly, 9. 

 Mould-like fungi, 15, 77. 

 Mounting, 149. 

 Mount Marcy, 68. 

 Mucronella, 94. 

 Muscaria, 49. 

 Muscarine, 50 ; a poison 



found in A. muscaria. 

 Mushrooms, baked, 153. 



— broiled, 153. 



— stewed, 153. 

 - — toasted, 153. 



Mushrooms, to keep, 15. 



— to prepare, 153. 

 Mutinus, 27. 



— bambusinus, 120. 



— caninus, 120. 



— embryo plant, 120. 



— young plant, 120. 

 Mycelial threads, 117, 123. 



— luminosity of, 63. 

 Mycelium, II, no, 136. 



— food provider, 13. 

 Mycena, 35, 55. 



— hoematopoda, 55. 

 Myxomycetes, 144. 



Name, not a vital thing, 

 150. 



— the search for, 150. 

 Nidularia, 133. 

 Nidulariales, 24, 133. 

 Nolanea, 88. 



Odontium, 94. 

 Offensive fungi, 117. 

 Omphalia, 35, 68. 



— umbellifera, 68. 

 Orange Amanita, 50. 

 Orange-cap Boletus, 108. 

 Orders, 7, 16. 

 Oreades, 3. 



Oxygen, 4 ; one of the ele- 

 mentary substances 

 which, chemically 

 united with carbon 

 and hydrogen, forms 

 plant tissues. 



Oyster mushroom, 57. 



Painted Boletinus, 103. 



Pan^olus, 92. 



Panus, 33. 



Paraphyses, 135 ; jointed 

 thread - like bodies 

 found accompanying 

 the spore-sacs of cer- 

 tain fungi. 



Parasite, 22 ; that which 

 lives by taking its 



165 



food from living 

 plants or animals. 



Parasite, Cordyceps, on 

 Elaphomyces, 136. 



Parasol mushroom, 63. 



Paxillus, care of spores, 

 14S. 



Peach cure, 9. 



Pear-shaped puffball, 125. 



Peridium, 14, 23, 24, 25, 

 123 ; the thickened 

 covering to a puff- 

 ball. 



Perithecium, 58 ; a round- 

 ed, oval, pear-shaped, 

 or beaked body in 

 which the spore-sacs 

 are developed. 



Perplexing Hypholoma, 

 78, 79- 



Perplexum, 78. 



Peziza, 22, 137. 



— ceruginosa, 137. 



— aurantia, 138. 



— odorata, 137. 



— YVillkommii, 137. 

 Pezizales, 19, 20, 137. 

 Phallaceae, 27, 117. 

 Phallales, 24, 117, 121. 

 Phallin, 48 ; a deadly 



poison found in cer- 

 tain fungi. 



Phalloides, Amanita, 4S. 



Phallus, 27. 



— impudicus, 117. 



— section of young impu- 



dicus, 119. 

 Phlebia, 94. 

 Pholiota, 38. 



— adiposa, 83. 



— limonella, 83. 



— prnecox, 84. 

 Phycomycetes, 9, 17. 

 Phylae, 7. 

 Phvsalacria, 98. 



Pileus, 146 ; the cap of a 



mushroom. 

 Pilosace, 39, 82. 



