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PLATE 1.
Fig. 1.—Amanita muscaria.
Fig. 2.—A. frostiana.
Copyright 1900.
STUDIES OF AMERICAN FUNGI
MUSHROOMS
EDIBLE, POISONOUS, ETC.
BY
GEORGE FRANCIS ATKINSON
Professor of Botany in Cornell University, and Botanist of the
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Recipes for Cooking Mushrooms, by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer
Chemistry and Toxicology of Mushrooms, by J. F. Clark
WITH 230 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE
AUTHOR, AND COLORED PLATES BY F. R. RATHBUN
SECOND EDITION
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NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1903
Copyright, 1900, 1901,
BY
GEO. F. ATKINSON.
INTRODUCTION.
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.
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