Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — Many Varieties in Musbrooms. [ARTICLE]

Many Varieties in Musbrooms.

In each season when mushrooms, which are taking each year a firmer hold on the taste the general public, are found most abundantly, It is well for the timid lover of this article of diet to remember that there are over 300 species that have been thoroughly tested by mycophagists and found to be entirely harmless. The fine books now published on this subject, with colored plates, where the growing fungi are exactly reproduced, give the most wary an opportunity to discover for themselves whether the specimens they may have gathered during a country ramble are safe to use. There are several varieties of mushrooms which, while gastronomieally disturbing, will not prove fatal. In fact, there is now thought to be but one variety that is sure death. And even for this—the deadly amanita—an antidote Is said to lie in atrophine. This is an equally deadly poison given in one-sixtieth of a grain doses in hypodermic injections. —New York Evening Post.