Excerpt from Field Book of Common Gilled Mushrooms: With a Key to Their Identification and Directions for Cooking Those That Are Edible This book is designed to assist persons who are interested in mushrooms in identifying some of the species of gilled fungi found growing in fields, woods and dooryards. It aims to supply the need for a means of ascertaining the names of common kinds that are new to the collector. The name of a fungus is not the vital thing but it is the first thing to be learned if one would wish to talk about it with other persons and read about it. 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.