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Studies of American Fungi Mushrooms: Edible, Poisonous, Etc (Classic Reprint) by George Francis Atkinson (Paperback / softback, 2015)

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Excerpt from Studies of American Fungi Mushrooms: Edible, Poisous, Etc Since the issue of my Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms, as Bulletins 138 and 168 of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, there have been so many inquiries for them and for literature dealing with a larger number of species, it seemed desirable to publish in book form a selection from the number of illustrations of these plants which I have accumulated during the past six or seven years. The selection has been made of those species representing the more important genera, and also for the purpose of illustrating, as far as possible, all the genera of agarics found in the United States. This has been accomplished except in a few cases of the more unimportant ones. There have been added, also, illustrative genera and species of all the other orders of the higher fungi, in which are included many of the edible forms. The photographs have been made with great care after considerable experience in determining the best means for reproducing individual, specific, and generic characters, so important and difficult to preserve in these plants, and so impossible in many cases to accurately portray by former methods of illustration. One is often asked the question: How do you tell the mushrooms from the toadstools? This implies that mushrooms are edible and that toadstools are poisous, and this belief is very widespread in the public mind. The fact is that many of the toadstools are edible, the common belief that all of them are poisous being due to unfamiliarity with the plants or their characteristics. Some apply the term mushroom to a single species, the one in cultivation, and which grows also in fields (Agaricus campestris), and call all others toadstools. It is becoming customary with some students to apply the term mushroom to the entire group of higher fungi to which the mushroom belongs (Basidiomycetes), and toadstool is regarded as a synymous term, since there is, strictly speaking, distinction between a mushroom and a toadstool. There are, then, edible and poisous mushrooms, or edible and poisous toadstools, as one chooses to employ the word. A more pertinent question to ask is how to distinguish the edible from the poisous mushrooms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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1440068607
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9781440068607
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George Francis Atkinson
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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English
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Life Sciences: Botany

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Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
27/09/2015
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United States

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