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Excerpt from Minnesota Mushrooms The present booklet is the fourth of a series of popular guides to the plants of Minnesota, designed for plant-lovers and for classes in botany in high school and college. An equally important object of the guide to mushrooms is to make available with safety the enormous annual crop of mushrooms, which is now almost entirely wasted through fear or neglect. It is perhaps idle to estimate the size or value of this crop, but if that part which is readily accessible is alone considered, the number of pounds will reach into the hundred thousands. Figured on the market price of the cultivated mushroom, the total value of the mushroom crop of the State can hardly be less than a million dollars. Just what would he the effect of utilizing this food supply is a matter of conjecture, hut there can be little doubt that it would prove fortunate from the standpoint of dietetics as well as of economics. The text has been made as simple and as concise as seems possible without sacrificing clearness. The plant-lover will find as he becomes acquainted with mushrooms in nature that they have many charms, apart from those of the palate, and that the study of appearance, behavior, etc., is as fascinating as with flowering plants. The first requisite however is to be able to strike up such an acquaintanceship, and this, together with the unlocking of a store of delicious food, is the chief object of the text. The student who has the time and interest for more extended work with the mushrooms will naturally refer to the more comprehensive books by Atkinson. McIlvaine, and Hard. In the preparation of keys and descriptions, Saccardo's "Sylloge Fungorum," Peck's "Reports," and the mushroom books just mentioned have been frequently consulted. While the majority of the illustrations are original, a large number have been taken from the mushroom books by Atkinson, Hard, Mcllvaine, Dumee, Michael, White, and from Freeman's "Plant Diseases." Grateful acknowledgment is made to these authors for such use. The writer is indebted to Dr. Edith Clements for the original water color drawings from which the color illustrations have been made, and for the working over of the recipes for cooking mushrooms. He wishes also to acknowledge the aid and interest of the members of the Minnesota Mycological Society, particularly Dr. Mary Whetstone, Miss Daisy Hone, and Mr. I. F. Lambert. Copies of "Minnesota Plant Studies" are furnished free to citizens of Minnesota, upon request to the undersigned. Ten copies are sent free to each high school, academy or college within the State, and additional copies are furnished at cost, twenty-five cents per copy. It is hoped that collectors will feel free at all times to send specimens to the department of botany to be named. Mushrooms can be sent through the mails readily, if they are wrapped in dry paper, and placed in a strong pasteboard box. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.