Author: M. C. Cooke

Publisher: Cooke Press

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1443728683

Originally published in 1891: PREFACE: FUNGUS eating is on the increase, thanks to Field clubs and their fungus forays, but the complaint has been heard for many years that no efficient hand book for the guidance of young or inexperienced mycophagists could be found in the English language. One or two laudable attempts have been made, but they have left much to be desired, and for the past tea-years my fungus eating friends have continued to urge me, as one of the oldest of fungus eaters, to give tjae tesults of my experience. Admirable as Dr Badham's book was when published, and fully as it answered its purpose then, no one will contend that it is up to date. However, the world is large enough for both of us. The list given at the end will re present all the kinds that I remember to have eaten and as sixty-five will be considered sufficient to establish my claim to be a fungus eater, it mayalso be regarded as sufficient to exonerate me from any charge of presumption or inexperience. It has usually been the custom to include poisonous and edible fungi in one book, but from this custom I have diverged, for two or three reasons. It is not. com* mendable to popularize knowledge of Vegetable poisons easy to procure. It is not advisable to mix the descriptions and figures of good and bad species without distinct labelling, as on a chemist's bottle, of poison across each noxious species. And it is not desirable to increase the bulk and cost of a little book which was intended in furtherance of fungus eating. 11 Copious notes have been added on the preparation of the different species for the table, some old and some new, but all practical. By the aid of the descriptions in writing, asuntechnical as possible, and the colourecf figures, it is hoped that all reasonable care has been, taken to prevent error, or danger, in eating mush rooms or toadstools. If I have rendered the art of fungus eating easier or safer I shall have accomplished my object. M. C. COOKE. LONDON, 1891. CONTENTS. PACK I. FUNGUS EATING 9 II. EXPLANATORY . . . . .17 III. THE COMMON MUSHROOM . .24 IV. THE MEADOW MUSHROOM . . .31 V. BROWN MUSHROOMS . . . - 37 VI. SHAGGY CAPS ..... 44 VII. PARASOL MUSHROOMS . . . .49 VIII. ST GEORGE'S MUSHROOM . . - 57 IX. WARTED CAPS . . . .66 X. DUSKY CAPS ..... 72 XI. FAIRY RING CHAMPIGNON . . - 77 XII. MILKY MUSHROOMS . . . .84 XIII. HEDGEHOG MUSHROOMS . . 91 XIV. SWEET-BREAD MUSHROOMS ... 96 XV. THE CHANTARELLE . . . .102 XVI. HE EDIBLE BOLETUS . . . .107 XVII. OTHER BOLETI . . . . .114 XVIII. VEGETABLE BEEF STEAK . . .121 XIX. PUFF BALLS . . . . .126 XX. BUFF CAPS AND IVORY CAPS . . - 133 XXI. OYSTER MUSHROOMS . . . .138 XXH. FRAGRANT MUSHROOMS, 145 8 CONllNTS. I'At. K XXIII. MORELS . . . . . .151 XXIV. TRUFFLES ..... 161 XXV. HORN OF PLENTY . . . 173 XXVI. JEWS' EARS ... .176 XXVII. THE RUSSULES 183 XXVIII. STUMP MUSHROOMS . . . .189 XXIX. THE SPARASSIS . . . . 193 XXX. FAIRY CLUBS OR CLAVARIA . . . 198 XXXI. MUSHROOM KETCHUP . . . .201 XXXII. ABOUT POISONOUS FUNGI . . .206 XXXIII. DRIED MUSHROOMS . . . .213 XXXIV. FUNGUS HUNTING . . . .218 XXXV. LIST OF EDIBLE FUNGI . . .225 EXPLANATION OF PLATES. Plate i Fitf. i. AOARICUS ( AMANITA) RUKESCENS. 2. AGARICUS ( AMVNITA) VAGIXAIUS. 3. AGARICS ( CLITOPILUS) PRUNULUS. 4. CLAVARIA AMETHYSTINA. 2 5. AGARICUS ( LEPIOTA) PROCKRUS. 6. AOARICUS ( LEPIOTA) EXCORIAIUS. 7. AOARICUS ( CLITOCYIIE) FRAORANS. 8. AOARICUS (CLITOCYHE) ODORUS. 3 9. AOARICUS ( TRICHOLOMA) NUDUS. 10. AOARICUS ( TRICHOLOMA) PERSON vrus. ii. AGARICUS ( TRICHOLOMA) GAMIJOSUS. 4 12. AOARICUS ( ARMILLARIA) MUCIDUS. 13. AOARICUS ( COLLYIJIA) FUSIPES. 14. AGARICUS ( PLEUROTUS) OSTREAIUS. 15. CLAVARIA VERMICULARIS. 5 16. AGARICUS ( PSALLIOTA) SYLVATICUS. 17. AOARICUS ( PSALIJOTA) ARYEXSIS. 6 1 8. AOARICUS ( PSALLIOTA) IKEMORRUOI DARIUS., 19. AOARICUS ( PSAI. LIOTA) CAMPESTRIS. 20. AOARICUS ( PSALLIOTA) LLVENSIS. 7 . 21. COPRINUS COMA I US. 22. C'OI'RINUS Al'RAMKNTARlUS. 8, 23-4. CANTHARE