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Show MUSHROOMS CF ALL SORTS Edible and Poisonous, While One Species, Spe-cies, Grown in Africa, Is Worshiped as a God. In or about the edges of woods one occasionally comes across an unpleasant-looking umbrella-shaped mushroom mush-room with a red or orange-colored top t!.at Is covered with a slimy exudation. Now and then, strange to say, people eat it. They die. Its slime Is very attractive to flies. They gather upon It, and they die. In Europe this species of mushroom Is used as a substitute for fly-paper. The horrible-smelling "clathrus" mushroom Is believed In France to cause cancer. I'rench people call It the "cancer mushroom." Another species, spe-cies, which grows on olive trees. Is so luminous at night that one can see to read by It. Other kinds of mushrooms are used for making Ink, for stanching the flow of blood and (in Lapland) for killing bedbugs. A European spocies is employed em-ployed to stupefy beea, and certain "puffballs" are said to have anesthetic anes-thetic properties. Tribes of semi-savages semi-savages in northeastern Asia utilize a mushroom for snuff. But most curious of all is the Polyporus sacer, which In Africa Is worshiped as a god. Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Dispatch. |