Index and Glossary 
Pinkish puffball, 125. 
Pistachio nuts, 78. 
Pistil of St. Johnswort, 
6. 
— of violet, 6. 
Pistil Clavaria, 101. 
Pistillaria, 98. 
Pleurotus, 32. 
— ostreatus, 57. 
— sapidus, 58. 
— ulmarius, 58. 
Pliny, 135. 
Pluteus, 37. 
— cervinus, 87. 
Poison Amanita, 48. 
Poisoning, cases of, 49. 
—of herbarium sheets, 
150. 
— recipes for, 150. 
Poisonous, 48, 49, I5I. 
Pollen, 4, 6. 
Polypodium vulgare, 6. 
Polyporaceze, 31, 42, 102, 
TOg. 
Polypori, 110, 
— to prepare, 155. 
Polyporus, 42. 
— arcularius, 112. 
— circinatus, 113. 
— conchatus, III. 
— fomentarius, I10. 
— megaloma, I10, 
— perennis, III. 
— pergamenus, III. 
— squamosus, II2. 
— sulphureus, rit. 
— velutinus, III. 
Pores, 14; the openings 
of the spore-bearing 
tubes. 
— easily separating from 
the adjoining tissue, 
44, 102. 
— in radiating rows, 102. 
—in the form of tubes 
whose mouths are 
separated, 44, 102. 
— long-hexagonal, 43. 
Pores, permanently united 
to adjoining tissue, 
42, 102. 
—separating with diffi- 
culty, 45. 
— to prepare woody, 155. 
Pouch fungi, 14, 23, 123. 
Pruinose, 146; as if frost- 
ed with a bloom or 
powder. 
Psathyra, 39, 82. 
Psathyrella, 40, 92. 
Psilocybe, 39, 82. 
Protoplasm, 144; the vis- 
cid, contractile, semi- 
fluid substance of 
an animal or vege- 
table cell. 
Protozoa, 144; unicellular 
microscopic animals. 
Pterula, 99. 
Puffballs, 3, 4, 123. 
— salad, 155. 
— to cook, 155. 
Purple Boletus, 107. 
Pycnodon, 94. 
Radulum, 94. 
Resupinate, 31. 
Ring, 12. 
— movable, 63. 
Rodman’s mushroom, 76. 
Romans, I. 
Rough-dried plants, 149. 
Russia, 49. 
Russula, 3, 35. 
— care of spores, 148. 
— emetica, 68. 
— heterophylla, 70. 
— to prepare for cooking, 
154. 
— virescens, 69. 
Salmon fungus, 9. 
Saprophytes, 123. 
Scaly Lentinus, 56. 
Schizophyllum, 33, 67. 
Scleroderma, 133. 
166 
Scleroderma vulgare, 134. 
Sclerodermatales, 25, 133. 
Seed-boxes, 6, 8. 
Sensitive plant, 89. 
Shaggy-mane, ii, v, viii, go. 
Shelley, 1, 2, 89. 
Silver fir, 6. 
Simblum, 26. 
— rubescens, 122. 
Sinuate, 35; said of gills 
which have a notch or 
recess near the stem, 
Slime fungi, 144. 
Smallest Earth-star, 130. 
Smith, Rev. Gerard, 3. 
Smokeballs, 123. 
Smooth Lepiota, 64. 
Smuts, 2, 14, 22. 
Sparassis crispa, 99. 
Spathularia, 21, 138. 
— velutipes, 138. 
Species, 7, 16. 
Specimens, 7. 
— care of, 147. 
Spencer, 2, 5. 
Spheeriales, 136. 
Spheerobolus, 133. 
Spines, 14, 41. 
Spore-dust to stanch blood, 
127. 
Spore print, 4. 
— receptacle, Io. 
Spore-sac fungi, 9, 17, 18, 
135. 
Spores, 11; single cells 
which serve the same 
purpose for fungi as 
seeds do for flowering 
plants. 
— black, 32, 46, 89-92. 
— brown, 38, 73-83. 
— colour, 4. 
— collecting of, 147. 
— dark brown, 32, 73-83. 
—dissemination of, 4, 
118, 126, 131,133,137. 
— elliptical, 72. 
— fusiform, 4o. 
