Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them. W. Hamilton Gibson

most conspicuous disciple of mycophagy—almost the pioneer, indeed, in America—was the late Rev. M. A. Curtis, of North Carolina, whose name heads the bibliography on page 325. For the benefit of those of my readers who may wish to follow the subject further than my pages will lead them, I append the list of edible species of fungi contained in Curtis's Catalogue, each group alphabetically arranged, the esculent qualities of many of which he himself discovered and attested by personal experiment. The favorite habitat of each fungus is also given, and to avoid any possibility of confusion in scientific nomenclature or synonymes, the authority for the scientific name is also given in each instance:

      

      LIST OF EDIBLE AMERICAN MUSHROOMS

      FROM THE CATALOGUE OF DR. M. A. CURTIS

Agaricus albellus.	De Candolle.	Damp woods.
A. (amanita) Cæsarea.	Scopoli.	In oak forests.
A. (amanita) rubescens.	Persoon.	Damp woods.
A. (amanita) strobiliformis.	Vittadini.	Common in woods.
A. amygdalinus.	M. A. Curtis.	Rich grounds, woods, and lanes.
A. arvensis.	Schaeffer.	Fields and pastures.
A. bombicinus.	Schaeffer.	Earth and carious wood.
A. campestris.	Linnæus.	Fields and pastures.
A. castus.	M. A. Curtis.	Grassy old fields.
A. cespitosus.	M. A. Curtis.	Base of stumps.
A. columbella.	Fries.	Woods.
A. consociatus.		Pine woods.
A. cretaceus.	Fries.	Earth and wood.
A. esculentus.	Jacquin.	Dense woods.
A. excoriatus.	Fries.	Grassy lands.
A. frumentaceous.	Bulliard.	Pine woods.
A. giganteus.	Sowerby.	Borders of pine woods.
A. glandulosus.	Bulliard.	Dead trunks.
A. hypopithyus.	M. A. Curtis.	Pine logs.
A. mastoideus.	Fries.	Woods.
A. melleus.	Valmy.	About stumps and logs.
A. mutabilis.	Schaeffer.	Trunks.
A. nebularis.	Batsch.	Damp woods.
A. odorus.	Bulliard.	Woods.
A. ostreatus.	Jacquin.	Dead trunks.
A. personatus.	M. A. Curtis.	Near rotten logs.
A. pometi.	Fries.	Carious wood.
A. procerus.	Scopoli.	Woods and fields.
A. prunulus.	Scopoli.	Damp woods.
A. rachodes.	Vittadini.	Base of stumps and trees.
A. radicatus.	Bulliard.	Woods.
A. (russula).	Schaeffer.	Among leaves in woods.
A. salignus.	Persoon.	On trunks and stumps.
A. speciosus.	Fries.	Grassy land.
A. squamosus.	Muller.	Oak stumps.
A. sylvaticus.	Schaeffer.	Woods.
A. tessellatus.	Bulliard.	Pine trunks.
A. ulmarius.	Sowerby.	Dead trunks.
Boletus bovinus.	Linnæus.	Pine woods.
B. castaneus.	Bulliard.	Woods.
B. collinitus.	Fries.	Pine woods.
B. edulis.	Bulliard.	Woods.
B. elegans.	Fries.	Earth in woods.
B. flavidus.	Fries.	Damp woods.
B. granulatus.	Linnæus.	Woods and fields.
B. luteus.	Linnæus.	Pine woods.
B. scaber.	Bulliard.	Sandy woods.
B. subtomentosus.	Linnæus.	Earth in woods.
B. versipellis.	Fries.	Woods.
Bovista nigrescens.	Persoon.	Grassy fields.
B. plumbea.	Persoon.	Grassy fields.
Cantharellus cibarius.	Fries.	Woods.
Clavaria