EDIBLE AND POISONOUS FUNGI.

LONDON:
WYMAN AND SONS, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN’S-INN FIELDS, W.C.

WITH
FIGURES OF TWENTY-NINE EDIBLE AND
THIRTY-ONE POISONOUS SPECIES.

BY

WORTHINGTON G. SMITH, F.L.S., M.A.I.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
HARDWICKE AND BOGUE, 192 PICCADILLY.
1876.

[Pg 5]

“The proof of the Fungus is in the eating.” I haveconstantly eaten every species figured on the “Edible Sheet,” and manyothers that are not. Few, I imagine, will expect me to have eaten everyspecies on the “Poisonous Sheet,” bearing, as they do, such adjectivenames as “gloomy,” “fiery,” “satanical,” “inflaming,” &c.

However, years ago, without a proper guide and with very littleexperience, I more than once became personally acquainted with theunpleasant qualities of one or two dangerous species, the particularsof which will be found in the proper place.[Pg 6]

If the following brief descriptions are used in connection with the twosheets of drawings, which I have copied from nature and transferred tothe stones myself (or in reference to the large drawings in the BethnalGreen Museum), no one who is capable of distinguishing one thing fromanother need fear making a mistake.

I shall be glad to give information regarding any species forwarded tome carriage paid.

W. G. SMITH.

15, Mildmay Grove, London, N.

[Pg 7]

(E. refers to Edible, and P. to Poisonous Sheet;
B.G.M. to the Number of the Drawing in the Bethnal Green Museum.)