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(1) THE publication of this pamphlet by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries is intended doubtless to broaden the “mushroom” diet of country dwellers. Whether this object will be attained depends primarily on the doubtful possibility of creating an interest in a lethargic public, and further, in making quite clear the somewhat abstruse differences between the clean and the unclean. With regard to means of discrimination, reliance is placed on coloured plates and short descriptions, to which are added a few hints on preparation for table. What is distinctly lacking is an attractive general account, with information regarding the kinds exposed for sale in foreign market places, where there is often a considerable variety. The list of edible species does not include either the chantarelle or the truffle, while another notable omission is a warning that individuals vary greatly in their power of digesting fungal ferments.
(1) Edible and Poisonous Fungi.
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Pp. 28. With 25 coloured plates. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910.) Price 1s.
(2) Guide to Mr. Worthington Smith's Drawings of Field and Cultivated Mushrooms and Poisonous or Worthless Fungi often Mistaken for Mushrooms, Exhibited in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History).
Pp. 24. (London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, Natural History, 1910.) Price 1s.
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(1) Edible and Poisonous Fungi (2) Guide to Mr Worthington Smith's Drawings of Field and Cultivated Mushrooms and Poisonous or Worthless Fungi often Mistaken for Mushrooms, Exhibited in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History). Nature 84, 361 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084361b0
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