Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous
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Chapters (202)(click to expand)
- INTRODUCTION.
- CRYPTOGAMS.
- FUNGI.
- CLASSIFICATION.
- STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AGARICINI.
- MUSHROOM GILLS.
- THE VOLVA.
- THE MUSHROOM VEIL.
- MUSHROOM SPORES AND MYCELIUM.
- MYCELIUM.
- ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "MUSHROOM."
- FOOD VALUE OF MUSHROOMS.
- CAUTIONARY SUGGESTIONS.
- APPENDIX A.
- Preserving and Cooking Mushrooms.
- Receipts.
- APPENDIX B.
- GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING MUSHROOMS.
- AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.
- ASCOMYCETES.
- DISCOMYCETES.
- RECEIPTS FOR COOKING.
- Mushroom Growing.[A]
- DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING THE COMPOST FOR THE BEDS.
- Compost for Mushroom Beds.
- Mushroom Culture in Canada.
- Cultivation of Mushrooms in Japan.
- Manufacture of Spawn.
- "Brick Spawn."
- "Mill Track" Spawn.
- Spawn Produced in a Manure Heap.
- APPENDIX A.
- CONTINUATION OF GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING MUSHROOMS.
- APPENDIX B.
- ANALYTICAL TABLE.
- POLYPOREI.
- RECIPES FOR COOKING MUSHROOMS.
- LIST OF THE GENERA OF HYMENOMYCETES.
- BREFIELD'S CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI.
- CONIOMYCETES AND HYPHOMYCETES.
- HYPHOMYCETES.
- PHYCOMYCETES OR PHYSOMYCETES.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- APPENDIX.
- GASTEROMYCETES.
- MYXOMYCETES OR MYXOGASTERS.—"Slime Fungi."
- GENERA OF GASTEROMYCETES, ACCORDING TO SACCARDO.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- APPENDIX.
- ALKALOIDS OF THE POISONOUS MUSHROOMS.
- Muscarin.[A]
- Phallin.
- The Poisonous Alkaloid of Gyromitra esculenta Fries (Helvella esculenta Pers.)
- Helvellic Acid.
- Poisonous and Deleterious Mushrooms of the Lactar, Russula, and Boletus Groups.
- Poisonous Boleti.
- Recent Instances of Mushroom Poisoning.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY—FUNGI.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CORRECTION OF PLATES.
- [Pg 1-4]
- [Pg 1-5]
- [Pg 1-6]
- [Pg 1-7]
- [Pg 1-8]
- [Pg 1-9]
- [Pg 1-10]
- [Pg 1-11]
- [Pg 1-12]
- [Pg 1-13]
- [Pg 1-14]
- [Pg 1-15]
- [Pg 1-16]
- [Pg 1-17]
- Plate I.
- [Pg 1-18]
- Plate II.
- [Pg 1-19]
- Plate III.
- [Pg 1-20]
- [Pg 1-21]
- [Pg 1-22]
- [Pg 1-23]
- [Pg 1-24]
- [Pg 2-1]
- [Pg 2-2]
- [Pg 2-3]
- [Pg 2-4]
- Plate C.
- [Pg 2-5]
- [Pg 2-6]
- [Pg 2-7]
- [Pg 2-8]
- Plate D.
- [Pg 2-9]
- Plate IV.
- [Pg 2-10]
- [Pg 2-11]
- Plate V.
- [Pg 2-12]
- [Pg 2-13]
- Plate VI.
- [Pg 2-14]
- Plate VII.
- [Pg 2-15]
- [Pg 2-16]
- [Pg 2-17]
- [Pg 2-18]
- [Pg 2-19]
- [Pg 2-20]
- [Pg 2-21]
- [Pg 2-22]
- [Pg 2-23]
- [Pg 2-24]
- [Pg 3-1]
- Plate E.
- [Pg 3-2]
- Plate F.
- [Pg 3-3]
- Plate VIII.
- [Pg 3-4]
- Plate IX.
- [Pg 3-5]
- [Pg 3-6]
- [Pg 3-7]
- [Pg 3-8]
- [Pg 3-9]
- [Pg 3-10]
- [Pg 3-11]
- [Pg 3-12]
- [Pg 3-13]
- Plate X.
- [Pg 3-14]
- [Pg 3-15]
- [Pg 3-16]
- [Pg 3-17]
- [Pg 3-18]
- [Pg 3-19]
- [Pg 3-20]
- [Pg 3-21]
- [Pg 3-22]
- [Pg 3-23]
- [Pg 4-1]
- [Pg 4-2]
- [Pg 4-3]
- [Pg 4-4]
- [Pg 4-5]
- Plate G.
- [Pg 4-6]
- [Pg 4-7]
- [Pg 4-8]
- [Pg 4-9]
- Plate H.
- [Pg 4-10]
- [Pg 4-11]
- [Pg 4-12]
- [Pg 4-13]
- [Pg 4-14]
- Plate XI.
- [Pg 4-15]
- [Pg 4-16]
- Plate XI½.
- [Pg 4-17]
- [Pg 4-18]
- Plate XII.
- [Pg 4-19]
- [Pg 4-20]
- Plate XIII.
- [Pg 4-21]
- [Pg 4-22]
- [Pg 4-23]
- [Pg 4-24]
- [Pg 5-1]
- [Pg 5-2]
- [Pg 5-3]
- Plate J.
- [Pg 5-4]
- [Pg 5-5]
- Plate XIV.
- [Pg 5-6]
- [Pg 5-7]
- [Pg 5-8]
- Plate XIV½.
- [Pg 5-9]
- Plate XV.
- [Pg 5-10]
- [Pg 5-11]
- Plate XVI.
- [Pg 5-12]
- [Pg 5-13]
- [Pg 5-14]
- [Pg 5-15]
- [Pg 5-16]
- [Pg 5-17]
- [Pg 5-18]
- [Pg 5-19]
- [Pg 5-20]
- [Pg 5-21]
- [Pg 5-22]
- [Pg 5-23]
- [Pg 5-24]
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