By Julius A. Palmer, Jr., Boston : Published by L. Prang & Co. 1885.

There is no more universally appreciated vegetable than the mushroom. A very large number of species are edible. But numbers of species are poisonous, and the fear of eating the noxious species prevents people from using numbers that may be collected near every one's door. Messrs. Prang could not have undertaken a more useful work than to give full sized colored illustrations of all of these classes, so that even a child may learn what to choose and what to avoid. Aside of the utility of the task, they are beautiful works of art that will be welcome to any one's library table. They are not too large to be inconvenient, but are each species printed on card-board by itself, and all in a portfolio. They can thus be used for lectures or parlor talks, and are just the thing for use in schools or colleges.