Dana's book on "The Wild Flowers," that has given so much pleasure. In
the case of mushrooms, however, but one answer can be returned to all
questions: "There is no American text-book on mushrooms, there is no
manual for beginners."
There are many books on British fungi for students, but we want some
popular work easy to understand, with no technical expressions.
This necessity for a simple guide-book has been felt by many. Let us
give our own experience. We procured a list of works on fungi, and
looked for some volume not too deep for our comprehension nor too costly
for our purse. Among those we found were "Handbook for Students"
(Taylor); "Edible and Poisonous Fungi" (Cooke), and a pamphlet by
Professor Peck, "Mushrooms and Their Uses." This seemed to be the one
that we could comprehend most easily, and so, armed with it, and another
pamphlet by Professor Underwood, called "Suggestions to Collectors of
Fleshy Fungi," which contained a simple key, we started out to make
discoveries. We afterward procured some publications of Mr.
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