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, 110. 
— lacrymans, IIo. 
Mitrula, 21. 
— 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, g. 
— 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, 11, 110, 136. 
— food provider, 13. 
Mycena, 35, 55. 
— hzmatopoda, 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. 
Panzeolus, 92. 
Panus, 33, 67. 
Paraphyses, 135; jointed 
thread-like bodies 
found accompanying 
the spore-sacs of cer- 
tain fungi. 
Parasite, 22; that which 
lives by taking its 
165 
Index and Glossary 
food from living 
plants or animals. 
Parasite, Cordyceps, on 
Elaphomyces, 136. 
Parasol mushroom, 63. 
Paxillus, care of spores, 
148. 
Peach cure, g. 
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. 
— eruginosa, 137. 
— aurantia, 138. 
— odorata, 137. 
— Willkommii, 137. 
Pezizales, 19, 20, 137. 
Phallacez, 27, 117. 
Phallales, 24, 117, 121. 
Phallin, 48; a deadly 
poison found in cer- 
tain fungi. 
Phalloides, Amanita, 48. 
Phallus, 27. 
— impudicus, 117. 
— section of young impu- 
dicus, 11g. 
Phlebia, 94. 
Pholiota, 38. 
—adiposa, 83. 
— limonella, 83. 
— preecox, 84. 
Phycomycetes, g, 17. 
Phyle, 7. 
Physalacria, 98. 
Pileus, 146; the cap of a 
mushroom, 
Pilosace, 39, 82. 
