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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 Sooty hygrophorous resembles the Club-stemmed clitocybe in the color
of its cap, but in nearly every other respect it is different. When
moist the cap is covered with an abundant gluten which when dry gives it
a shining appearance as if varnished. The color varies from
grayish-brown to a very dark or sooty-brown with the central part
usually still darker or almost black, but never with an umbo. The flesh
and the gills are white. The stem also is white or but slightly shaded
toward the base with the color of the cap. It is variable in length and
shape, being long or short, straight or crooked, everywhere equal in
thickness or tapering toward the base. It is glutinous and unpleasant to
handle.

The cap is 1–4 in. broad, the stem 2–4 in. long, and 4–8 lines thick.
The plants grow either singly or in tufts. In the latter case the caps
are often irregular from mutual pressure.

The plants occur early in October and November, in pine woods or woods
of pine and hemlock intermixed.

This mushroom is tender and of excellent flavor, but its sticky and
often dirty covering should be peeled before cooking. _Peck_, 49th Rep.
N.Y. State Bot.

Found at Angora, near Philadelphia, August 1, 1897. Densely cespitose.

Raw it tastes like dead leaves. Tender and of fine flavor when cooked.


=H. minia´tus= Fr.—_minium_, red lead. (Plate XXXVII, fig. 4, p. 146.)
=Pileus= thin, fragile, at first convex, becoming nearly plane, glabrous
or minutely squamulose, often umbilicate, generally red. =Gills=
distant, adnate, yellow, often tinged with red. =Stem= slender,
glabrous, colored like the pileus. =Spores= elliptical, white, 8µ long.

=Cap= ½-2 in. broad. =Stem= 1–2 in. long, 1–2 lines thick. _Peck_, 48th
Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Var. _lutes´cens_. Pileus yellow or reddish-yellow. Stem and gills
yellow. Plant often cespitose. _Peck_, 41st Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= 10×6µ _Cooke_; elliptical, white.

Grows where it pleases and abundantly throughout the land. In wet
weather I have found it in July and late in autumn.

Professor Peck says: It is scarcely surpassed by any mushroom in
tenderness of substance and agreeableness of flavor.

The gunner for partridges will not shoot rabbits; the knowing toadstool
seeker will pass all others where H. miniatus abounds.

                        ** _Gills adnexed, etc._

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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 Sooty hygrophorous resembles the Club-stemmed clitocybe in the color
of its cap, but in nearly every other respect it is different. When
moist the cap is covered with an abundant gluten which when dry gives it
a shining appearance as if varnished. The color varies from
grayish-brown to a very dark or sooty-brown with the central part
usually still darker or almost black, but never with an umbo. The flesh
and the gills are white. The stem also is white or but slightly shaded
toward the base with the color of the cap. It is variable in length and
shape, being long or short, straight or crooked, everywhere equal in
thickness or tapering toward the base. It is glutinous and unpleasant to
handle.

The cap is 1–4 in. broad, the stem 2–4 in. long, and 4–8 lines thick.
The plants grow either singly or in tufts. In the latter case the caps
are often irregular from mutual pressure.

The plants occur early in October and November, in pine woods or woods
of pine and hemlock intermixed.

This mushroom is tender and of excellent flavor, but its sticky and
often dirty covering should be peeled before cooking. _Peck_, 49th Rep.
N.Y. State Bot.

Found at Angora, near Philadelphia, August 1, 1897. Densely cespitose.

Raw it tastes like dead leaves. Tender and of fine flavor when cooked.


=H. minia´tus= Fr.—_minium_, red lead. (Plate XXXVII, fig. 4, p. 146.)
=Pileus= thin, fragile, at first convex, becoming nearly plane, glabrous
or minutely squamulose, often umbilicate, generally red. =Gills=
distant, adnate, yellow, often tinged with red. =Stem= slender,
glabrous, colored like the pileus. =Spores= elliptical, white, 8µ long.

=Cap= ½-2 in. broad. =Stem= 1–2 in. long, 1–2 lines thick. _Peck_, 48th
Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Var. _lutes´cens_. Pileus yellow or reddish-yellow. Stem and gills
yellow. Plant often cespitose. _Peck_, 41st Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= 10×6µ _Cooke_; elliptical, white.

Grows where it pleases and abundantly throughout the land. In wet
weather I have found it in July and late in autumn.

Professor Peck says: It is scarcely surpassed by any mushroom in
tenderness of substance and agreeableness of flavor.

The gunner for partridges will not shoot rabbits; the knowing toadstool
seeker will pass all others where H. miniatus abounds.

                        ** _Gills adnexed, etc._

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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