Bulletin No 324. Botany and Plant Pathology Series No 17.
Although 3000 copies of this Department of Agriculture bulletin were printed, in 1952-3 (at a selling price of 9s 6d), copies are today seldom seen outside libraries and botanical collections.
After an introduction (which includes an extract from an 1820 poem by Shelley - “Sensitive Plant”), which notes, among much other information that there is no botanical difference between “mushrooms” and “toadstools”, the bulletin describes 20 of the more common species, with each illustrated by a full-page colour plate. Nine of these are rated as edible, three as borderline and the remainder as inedible or poisonous. The painting of the (edible) Tough Boletus is by the noted botanical artist Cythna Letty.
The brown card covers are side-stitched. i + 49 pp + 20 single-sided plates. An erratum slip is pasted in at the front. The title-page and the last (blank) page of the book are sunned but the remaining pages and plates are unmarked and undiscoloured.
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 250 x 150
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