A Treatise On The Esculent Funguses Of England

Author : Charles David Badham
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ISBN 13 : 9781332334070
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England written by Charles David Badham and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England: Containing an Account of Their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious Properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, Etc My lamented friend Dr. Badham having died since the first publication of this work, my advice was asked upon the subject of the preparation of a new edition. It was wished that the text of the work should be altered as little as possible, and that the price of the book should be materially lessened. The latter object could not be effected without reducing the number of the Plates; but it appeared to me that some plates relating to details of structure might very well be omitted, as well as the figures of a few Italian species which, although interesting in themselves, are quite unnecessary in a book on British Esculent Fungi. With the exception of the omission of the description of these latter species, and the addition of the description of two other species hereafter referred to, the alterations in the text are too trifling to require notice. With regard to the Figures in this edition, most of them are those of the former plates, somewhat reduced; a few have been taken from the plates of Mr. Berkeley's 'Outlines of British Fungology, ' and a few from original and other sources. By a re-arrangement of the whole, the reduction in the number of the Plates has been effected, and, at the same time, figures of all the fungi represented in the first edition have been given, as well as of two other species not there noticed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.