Boston Mycological Club, 
Bulletin No. 12. (Issued February 13, 1900.) 
Horns Webster, Corr. Sec., P. O. Box 21, Cambridge, Mass. 
The frequent receipt of inquiries as to the literature of mushrooms 
justifies the publication of the following list of helpful books, pam¬ 
phlets, and periodicals. A similar list appeared in Bulletin No. 2, 
copies of which are now exhausted. Moreover, several new titles of 
recent works are here added. 
POPULAR WORKS* 
British Edible Fungi, How to Distinguish and How to Cook Them, 
by M. C. Cooke, is a readable book of nearly 250 pages, containing col¬ 
ored plates of 44 species, with notes on many others, chapters on poi¬ 
sonous fungi and on fungus hunting, and a list of about 200 edible kinds. 
With very few exceptions all the species mentioned are found in the 
United States. $2.50. 
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, What to Eat and What to 
Avoid, by the same author, 126 pp., with colored illustrations of 48 
species, is very similar to the preceding and equally useful within its 
limits. $1.50. 
Fuhrer fur Pilzfreunde, by Edmund Michael, about 150 pp., has 
descriptions and remarkably fine plates of 68 species, edible and poison¬ 
ous (of which 18 are Boleti), also recipes for cooking and preserving 
mushrooms, and other matter. It is of great help even to those ignorant 
of German, for the species are almost all common with us. $1.75. 
Note. Of the plates in this German handbook only 17 repeat those in 
Cooke’s smaller guide, so that anyone who possesses both will have col¬ 
ored illustrations of 99 species. The combination of Cooke’s larger book 
with Michael gives plates of 98 species. 
Some Edible and Poisonous Fungi, by W. G. Farlow, 18 pp., 
reprinted from the year-book of the U. S. Dep’t. of Agriculture for 1897, 
pp. 453-470, and issued as Bulletin No. 15 of the Division of Vegetable 
Physiology and Pathology. This bulletin, published for free distribution, 
should be in the hands of everyone attempting for the first time to make 
the acquaintance of edible mushrooms. It contains careful descriptions 
and advice, especially with regard to the dangerous species, and has ten 
excellent plates (one colored) illustrating twelve species. It takes the 
place of the same author’s Notes for Mushroom Eaters,, reprinted 
from Garden and Forest, Nos. 309-314, (Jan., Feb., 1894), and now out 
of print. For this and other government publications application should 
be made to the Dep’t. of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. 35 cts. 
Observations on Recent Cases of Mushroom Poisoning in the 
District of Columbia, by F. V. Coville, 24 pp., also a government pub¬ 
lication, issued as Circular No. 13 of the Division of Botany, covers a 
part of the same ground as the preceding, and is valuable for its 27 figures 
from life, particularly for those of the poisonous Amanitas. Distributed 
free. 15 cts. 
Edible and Poisonous Fungi, a paper by W. C. Sturgis, 16 pp., with 
seven plates of thirteen species, may be found in the Report of the 
Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture for 1895. 
* Prices given are those of the Cambridge Botanical Supply Co., Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass., the lessors of the present quarters of the Club Herbarium. 
