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A WORK which will be very welcome to English fungologists, and especially to those who are interested in fungophagy. We have here descriptions of 100 of the more conspicuous Fungi of Sicily, with coloured plates of some of the mere important or newly-described species, an account of their localities, and of the uses to which they are applied; and, what is of no small importance in a work on Fungi, a list of the synonyms belonging to each species. Sig. Inzenga has paid special attention to the economic properties of the Sicilian Fungi; among this first century he enumerates 30 species, which he can vouch for as being perfectly wholesome, more or less delicate in flavour, and easily distinguished from any noxious species, many of them being largely used as articles of food by the Sicilian peasantry, and sold in the markets of Palermo and Messina; while only eight are named as being absolutely poisonous, or so suspicious as to be prudently rejected. Our common mushroom, which is forbidden to be sold in the markets of Rome, is freely eaten in Sicily, though not so much esteemed as several other species.
Sicilian Fungi.—Funghi Siciliani.
Per Guiseppe Inzenga. Centuria Prima. 4to. pp. 95, with 8 coloured plates, price 10s. (Palermo, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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B., A. Sicilian Fungi—Funghi Siciliani . Nature 1, 134 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001134c0
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