Mycology
“_Have you not seen in the woods on a late autumn morning a poor fungus or mushroom--a plant without any solidity, nay, that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly--by its constant total and inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, a...
It is the vegetative part of the fungus, and is composed of minute, cylindrical, thread-like branching bodies called hyphæ. When we wish to cultivate mushrooms we plant the spaw...
4. Chapter 4This species is small in size. +Cap+ is about 1 inch broad, thin, convex and almost plane. Sometimes with a depression (umbilicate). When moist it has a water-soaked look, and b...
1. Chapter 1“_Have you not seen in the woods on a late autumn morning a poor fungus or mushroom--a plant without any solidity, nay, that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly--by its cons...
6. Chapter 6+Cap+ whitish-violet, 2 to 3 inches broad, fleshy, convex, broadly umbonate or gibbous, dry, beautifully silky and becoming even; flesh juicy, a bluish-white color. +Stem+ 2 to...
5. Chapter 5+Cap+ of a grayish-green color. It is 2 to 4 inches broad, dry and broken up into small warts, the margin straight, obtuse, even; flesh white. +Stem+ 2 inches long and ½ inch th...
3. Chapter 3The common name often given to this genus is “Fairy Clubs.” We have described several species in our list of fungi, and will only say that these are fleshy fungi, either simple...
7. Chapter 73. Fungi with the outside covering bowl-shaped Crucibulum, of one cottony layer, the Crucible. Outside covering tubular, trumpet-shaped, Cyathus, of 3 layers, the cup. Outside c...
8. Chapter 8+---------------------------------------+-------------------+ | Size of plants, small. | Collybia,[1] | | | Mycena, | | | Omphalia, | | | Marasmius. | +-----------------+-------...