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Title: Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

Author: George Francis Atkinson

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Language: English

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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

[Illustration: PLATE 1.

FIG. 1.--Amanita muscaria.
FIG. 2.--A. frostiana.
Copyright 1900.]

[Illustration: Printer's logo.]

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 bee