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Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi: How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.McIlvaine, Charles

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Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi: How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

Name: Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi: How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.
Author: McIlvaine, Charles

McIlvaine, Charles

Cooking (Mushrooms); Edible mushrooms -- North America; Fungi -- North America; Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Poisonous -- North America

The excentric, generally lateral stem, absent in some of the species,
separates this from other genera of the white-spored series.

=Pileus= varying from fleshy in the larger to membranaceous in the
smaller forms, but never becoming woody. =Veil= generally wanting, when
present its remains sometimes appear on the margin of the pileus, or as
an evanescent ring on the stem. =Gills=, edge acute, generally
decurrent, in some species with a well-marked tooth, rarely simply
adnate. =Stem= fleshy, confluent and homogeneous with the pileus.

Wood, dead or alive; a few species appear on the ground.

P. ulmarius and others of the larger forms, when growing in an upright
position, may have the stem central and the pileus horizontal. The stems
of some species of Clitocybe and Omphalia if growing laterally are
sometimes excentric and oblique.

This genus is analogous to Claudopus, pink-spored, and Crepidotus,
brown-spored.

=Spores= white, but those of P. sapidus are faintly tinged with lilac,
and of P. ostreatus, var. euosmus, with purple.


                          ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

                         EXCENTRICI. Page 137.

Pileus entire, laterally extended, excentric, not truly lateral.

* Veil fugacious, fragments adhering to stem or margin of pileus.

** Veil none, gills sinuate or obtusely adnate.

*** Veil none, gills very decurrent, stem distinct, almost vertical.

**** Veil none, gills very decurrent, stem proper absent, pileus
lateral, extended behind into a short, stem-like oblique base.

                          DIMIDIATI. Page 144.

Pileus not at first resupinate, lateral, prolonged without a definite
margin behind, into a very short lateral, stem-like base.

                         RESUPINATI. Page 146.

Pileus resupinate from the first, then reflexed.

If any odium attaches to the word toadstool, it should be forgotten and
forever banished in presence of this cleanly, neat, handsome genus,
choice in its growing places from lichen-covered stumps, or bark-clad
boles, or highly perched limbs, or the scented surfaces of decaying
wood. Several of its species perfume themselves throughout with pleasant
spicy odors. Many are most accommodating in their constant coming.

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Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi: How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

McIlvaine, Charles

Cooking (Mushrooms); Edible mushrooms -- North America; Fungi -- North America; Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Poisonous -- North America

The excentric, generally lateral stem, absent in some of the species,
separates this from other genera of the white-spored series.

=Pileus= varying from fleshy in the larger to membranaceous in the
smaller forms, but never becoming woody. =Veil= generally wanting, when
present its remains sometimes appear on the margin of the pileus, or as
an evanescent ring on the stem. =Gills=, edge acute, generally
decurrent, in some species with a well-marked tooth, rarely simply
adnate. =Stem= fleshy, confluent and homogeneous with the pileus.

Wood, dead or alive; a few species appear on the ground.

P. ulmarius and others of the larger forms, when growing in an upright
position, may have the stem central and the pileus horizontal. The stems
of some species of Clitocybe and Omphalia if growing laterally are
sometimes excentric and oblique.

This genus is analogous to Claudopus, pink-spored, and Crepidotus,
brown-spored.

=Spores= white, but those of P. sapidus are faintly tinged with lilac,
and of P. ostreatus, var. euosmus, with purple.


                          ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

                         EXCENTRICI. Page 137.

Pileus entire, laterally extended, excentric, not truly lateral.

* Veil fugacious, fragments adhering to stem or margin of pileus.

** Veil none, gills sinuate or obtusely adnate.

*** Veil none, gills very decurrent, stem distinct, almost vertical.

**** Veil none, gills very decurrent, stem proper absent, pileus
lateral, extended behind into a short, stem-like oblique base.

                          DIMIDIATI. Page 144.

Pileus not at first resupinate, lateral, prolonged without a definite
margin behind, into a very short lateral, stem-like base.

                         RESUPINATI. Page 146.

Pileus resupinate from the first, then reflexed.

If any odium attaches to the word toadstool, it should be forgotten and
forever banished in presence of this cleanly, neat, handsome genus,
choice in its growing places from lichen-covered stumps, or bark-clad
boles, or highly perched limbs, or the scented surfaces of decaying
wood. Several of its species perfume themselves throughout with pleasant
spicy odors. Many are most accommodating in their constant coming.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi: How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi: How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

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