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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

2.  MORCHELLA ESCULENTA,        542 5.  CANTHARELLUS BREVIPES,      219

 3.  CRATERELLUS                 508
 CANTHARELLUS,

Other species of the genus do not, as a rule, grow so plentifully,
neither are they of equal excellence, but several of them are equal to
any other species. Suspicion has been thrown upon C. aurantiacus. There
is such a marked difference between the excellence of the genus in West
Virginia and other localities, that it is possible C. aurantiacus may be
noxious elsewhere, but the writer has not found it so; and it would be
an astonishing contradiction of Nature’s ways if it was.

Stevenson says: “It (C. cibarius) must have four hours slow cooking.”
The writer has found thirty minutes to be sufficient; and it will fry in
butter as quickly as any other fungus.

                          ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

          MESOPUS (_mesos_, middle; _pous_, a foot). Page 215.

                             Stem central.

* Stem solid.

** Stem tubular.

            PLEUROPUS (_pleura_, the side; _pous_, a foot).

                             Stem lateral.

            RESUPINATUS (_resupinatus_, lying on the back).

                              Stem absent.

All the species known to be edible belong to Mesopus.


                               ME´SOPUS.


                            * _Stem solid._


=C. ciba´rius= Fr.—_cibaria_, food. (Plate XLVI, fig. 4, p. 214. Plate
XLVII.) =Pileus= fleshy, obconic, smooth, egg-yellow, slightly
depressed. =Gills= thick, distant, more or less branching and
anastomosing, concolorous. =Stem= firm, solid, often tapering downward,
concolorous. =Flesh= white.

=Height= 2–4 in., breadth of =pileus= 2–3 in. =Stem= 3–6 lines thick.

In open woods and grassy places. Common. July and August.

Edible. The smell of apricots is not always clearly perceptible in
American specimens. _Peck_, Monograph New York Species of Cantharellus,
Rep. 23.

=Spores= 6×8µ _W.G.S._; 7.6×5µ _Morgan_; spheroid-ellipsoid, 8–9×5–6µ
_K._; 11µ _Q._

Reported from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Columbia river to
Louisiana. June to September.

Wherever grown C. cibarius is one of the best. In European countries it
is highly rated, and is expensive. Its mode of growth varies with its
plentifulness. In the West Virginia mountains large patches of it
closely cover the ground. Clusters weighing ½ pound are frequent.

(Plate XLVII.)

[Illustration: CANTHARELLUS CIBARIUS.]

When shredded, or cut across the fibers, slow cooking for half an hour
is sufficient, if the plants are fresh. If gathered for some hours, they
should be soaked for a time.


=C. mi´nor= Pk. =Pileus= fleshy, thin, convex then expanded and
depressed, egg-yellow. =Gills= very narrow, distant, sparingly branched,
yellowish. =Stem= slender, subflexuous, equal, smooth, hollow or
stuffed, concolorous.

=Height= 1–2 in., breadth of pileus 6–12 lines.

In open woods. July. _Peck_, 23d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= 6.4–7.6×4–5µ _Peck_.

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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

2.  MORCHELLA ESCULENTA,        542 5.  CANTHARELLUS BREVIPES,      219

 3.  CRATERELLUS                 508
 CANTHARELLUS,

Other species of the genus do not, as a rule, grow so plentifully,
neither are they of equal excellence, but several of them are equal to
any other species. Suspicion has been thrown upon C. aurantiacus. There
is such a marked difference between the excellence of the genus in West
Virginia and other localities, that it is possible C. aurantiacus may be
noxious elsewhere, but the writer has not found it so; and it would be
an astonishing contradiction of Nature’s ways if it was.

Stevenson says: “It (C. cibarius) must have four hours slow cooking.”
The writer has found thirty minutes to be sufficient; and it will fry in
butter as quickly as any other fungus.

                          ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

          MESOPUS (_mesos_, middle; _pous_, a foot). Page 215.

                             Stem central.

* Stem solid.

** Stem tubular.

            PLEUROPUS (_pleura_, the side; _pous_, a foot).

                             Stem lateral.

            RESUPINATUS (_resupinatus_, lying on the back).

                              Stem absent.

All the species known to be edible belong to Mesopus.


                               ME´SOPUS.


                            * _Stem solid._


=C. ciba´rius= Fr.—_cibaria_, food. (Plate XLVI, fig. 4, p. 214. Plate
XLVII.) =Pileus= fleshy, obconic, smooth, egg-yellow, slightly
depressed. =Gills= thick, distant, more or less branching and
anastomosing, concolorous. =Stem= firm, solid, often tapering downward,
concolorous. =Flesh= white.

=Height= 2–4 in., breadth of =pileus= 2–3 in. =Stem= 3–6 lines thick.

In open woods and grassy places. Common. July and August.

Edible. The smell of apricots is not always clearly perceptible in
American specimens. _Peck_, Monograph New York Species of Cantharellus,
Rep. 23.

=Spores= 6×8µ _W.G.S._; 7.6×5µ _Morgan_; spheroid-ellipsoid, 8–9×5–6µ
_K._; 11µ _Q._

Reported from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Columbia river to
Louisiana. June to September.

Wherever grown C. cibarius is one of the best. In European countries it
is highly rated, and is expensive. Its mode of growth varies with its
plentifulness. In the West Virginia mountains large patches of it
closely cover the ground. Clusters weighing ½ pound are frequent.

(Plate XLVII.)

[Illustration: CANTHARELLUS CIBARIUS.]

When shredded, or cut across the fibers, slow cooking for half an hour
is sufficient, if the plants are fresh. If gathered for some hours, they
should be soaked for a time.


=C. mi´nor= Pk. =Pileus= fleshy, thin, convex then expanded and
depressed, egg-yellow. =Gills= very narrow, distant, sparingly branched,
yellowish. =Stem= slender, subflexuous, equal, smooth, hollow or
stuffed, concolorous.

=Height= 1–2 in., breadth of pileus 6–12 lines.

In open woods. July. _Peck_, 23d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= 6.4–7.6×4–5µ _Peck_.

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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.

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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