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Student's Hand-Book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous · Thomas Taylor — chapter 55 of 56 · ~432 words · public domain

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The Analytic Table starting on Page 6 of part 3 was changed to use numeric codes to identify the branches in the tree rather than the special characters, for clarity and elimination of non-Latin-1 characters.

Changed "Psilosybe" to "Psilocybe" in the table on page 7 of part 3.

Changed "fibres" to "fibers" on page 8 of part 3: "with minute fibers."

Changed "Rhodosporhii" to "Rhodosporii" on page 9 of part 3: "section Rhodosporii."

"Pleurotos" appeared on pages 9 and 16 of part 3 and page 3 of part 5; they were all changed to "Pleurotus" for consistency.

Changed "epyphytal" to "epiphytal" on page 13 of part 3: "epiphytal, often stemless."

Changed "Mushroooms" to "Mushrooms" on page 14 of part 3: "Mushrooms with Bacon."

Changed "importatnt" to "important" on page 15 of part 3: "an important part."

Changed "Hymenomycetefs" to "Hymenomycetes" on page 16 of part 3: "the genera of Hymenomycetes."

Both "Gloeoporus" and "Gloeporus" appear. I left both spellings, since I couldn't determine the author's intention.

Changed "Basidyomycetes" to "Basidiomycetes" on page 18 of part 3: "Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes."

Changed "myceluim" to "mycelium" on page 18 of part 3: "directly on the mycelium."

Changed "Dacyromycetes" to "Dacryomycetes" on page 19 of part 3: "(1) Dacryomycetes."

Some text was dropped on page 19 of part 3. I inserted an ellipsis as a place-holder: "without asci, ... sporules or stylospores."

Moved semi-colon inside quote three times on page 20 of part 3, for grammatical consistency: 'or "rotting moulds;" the Cystopi, or "white rusts;" the Saprolegniaceae, or "fish moulds;".'

Changed "Entomothoraceae" to "Entomophthoraceae" on page 20 of part 3.

Changed "Uutersuch." to "Untersuch." on page 21 of part 3: "Bot. Untersuch."

Changed "Mongraphie" to "Monographie" on page 21 of part 3: "Monographie des Saprolegniees."

Changed "spois" to "spores" on page 23 of part 3, in the entry for tetraspore.

Changed "perethecia" to "perithecia" twice on page 23 of part 3: "enclosed in perithecia" and "fungi without perithecia."

Changed "Hyphomecetea" to "Hyphomyceteae" on page 23 of part 3: "such as the Hyphomyceteae."

Changed "rotton" to "rotten" on page 4 of part 4: "rotten wood or sticks."

Changed "Puff Ball" to "Puff-Ball" in caption to Plate G.

Changed "globuse" to "globose" on page 6 of part 4: "sometimes nearly globose."

Changed "fetid" to "foetid" on page 9 of part 4, for consistency: "their foetid odor." Also in the caption to Plate H.

Changed "disc" to "disk" on page 9 of part 4: "the disk is stellate."

Changed "Phalloideae" to "Phalloideae" in the caption to Plate H.

Changed "Lycoperadaceae" to "Lycoperdaceae" on page 12 of part 4: "III.--Lycoperdaceae."

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