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Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Mushrooms — and out of doors.

  1. What fungous delicacy is found on tree roots?
  2. What animals are trained to scent these fungi for the collector?
  3. What is the most deadly of native mushrooms?
  4. What drug is the only antidote for it?
  5. What is the mushroom of cultivation?
  6. What colours oak and beech wood used in the famous Tunbridge ware?
  7. What is a "fairy ring," and what produces it?
  8. Where and when is the "beefsteak fungus" found?
  9. How is it cooked?
  10. What is the bird's nest fungus?
  11. What are earth stars?
  12. What is a fungus?
  13. How do fungi get a living?
  14. What is a spore print, and how can it best be made?
  15. Trace the life story of a mushroom from spore to spore.
  16. What are the named parts of a mushroom?
  17. What is the difference between a mushroom and a toadstool?
  18. What produces the phosphorescent light in tree stumps?
  19. What edible mushroom may easily be mistaken for a death cup?
  20. How can full directions for raising mushrooms be obtained?
  21. What makes the glistening coprinus shine?
  22. What are the three danger signals of the pore fungi?
  23. What is the life history of a tree bracket?
  24. What is punk, and how is it prepared for market?
  25. What legend of Judas is attached to a fungus?
  26. What insect is invited by the foul-smelling stink-horn?
  27. What is the "smoke" that is in dry puffballs?
  28. What two uses did the dry contents of puffballs serve in early days?
  29. What size and weight do giant puffballs attain?
  30. What is the earth star's mode of scattering its spores?
  31. What fungus has the power to throw its matured spore case out?
  32. When and where are the delicious morels to be found?
  33. What is the misty growth about a dead fly on the window pane?
  34. What are the best methods of collectors for herbariums?
  35. Name the Don'ts for the guidance of inexperienced mushroom lovers.
  36. What has been learned as to the actual food value of mushrooms?
  37. What are some of the best methods of cooking the edible sorts?
  38. What are the links that bind the fungi to higher plants?