This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...The production of these spores is what gives the gills of the different kinds a different color when the caps are fully expanded. The spores are matured even after the mushrooms are picked, and when ripe fall off on the paper. These spores are believed to be able to grow if they fall on the ground in favorable places where they eventually produce a new crop of mushrooms. Now, if the spores are white, the gills will remain white and the spore-print will be white and will scarcely show on the white paper, so we use black paper to make white sporeprints. Fig. 1.--On The Left, Hyphoi.oma Incertum. On The Right Psilocybe Foenisecii. A Group Of L.wvx Mushrooms. If we have paints and a brush handy we may set our. mushrooms upright, sketch them and try to reproduce them in a colored picture. Most of those which grow on the lawns and fields are not so brightly colored as those which grow in the forests, but it is a good plan to begin with those near by. If we have a Kodak we may want to photograph them. Young folks will find it fun to snap-shot the different kinds growing on their lawns in order to make a collection of photos of their mushroom acquaintances. They can be photographed out of doors showing where they grow, as in the photograph shown in Fig. 2. or, if the specimens are not too small, they can be set in a row with the hase of the stem pushed into a pin the head of which has been cut off, as in our photograph. (Fig. 4.) Fig. 2.--Coprinus Micaceous (the Little Inky-cap). Note The Lines Running Up And Down The Cap. Perhaps someone will now ask whether it is safe to touch them. Are they not poisonous? Oh, yes! There are poisonous ones, but it is always safe to touch them. As long as you do not take them into your mouth or swallow pieces of them, you can touc...