Article April 19, 1900 Issue

Mushrooms

J. M. R.

The Herald of February 5, gave a report of a banquet given at the Westminster by the Mycological Club of Boston. The club numbers about five hundred members and there were about two hundred guests present. It stated that mushrooms were served in eight different courses, and that mushroom toasts, poems, and prose articles followed. Two water-color pictures of mushrooms were given as prizes for the best paper on the subject.

That there is great interest in the study of these curious fungi, is proven by the enthusiasm of the students who are in communication with foreign clubs. The researches of all have discovered and recorded about a thousand varieties, many of which are edible, some of which are curious, and others very rare.

There is one species which has been found nowhere else in the world but on the Lynn shore. One variety is quite large and luminous enough to light faces in a dark place. Another luminous kind grows on olive trees and gives light enough to read by. One which is handsomely shaped and edible grows in tanbark, others grow on trees, and one is found only near or under railroad tracks. Many varieties are found in pastures, fields, and vacant lots. One is said to taste like lobster, another like beefsteak, another like chicken. They seem to imitate different kinds of flesh food.

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