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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

This species is perhaps too closely allied to the preceding, but it may
easily be separated by its paler color, closer gills and solid stem,
though this is sometimes hollow from the erosion of insects. _Peck_, 42d
Rep. N.Y. State Bot.


=C. Un´derwoodii= Pk.—in honor of L.M. Underwood. =Pileus= rather thin
but fleshy, nearly plane or slightly depressed in the center, even,
whitish. =Gills= narrow, close, slightly decurrent, pale flesh-colored.
=Stem= rather short, equal or slightly tapering upward, solid, whitish.
=Spores= subglobose, 4–5µ long.

=Pileus= 6–18 lines broad. =Stem= about 1 in. long and 2 lines thick.

Syracuse and Jamesville. September and October. _L.M. Underwood._
_Peck_, 49th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.


                            SPORES ROSY-RED.


=C. erythro´sporus= Pk. _Gr_—red-spored. =Pileus= thin, hemispherical or
strongly convex, glabrous or merely pruinose, pinkish-gray. =Flesh=
whitish tinged with pink, taste farinaceous. =Gills= narrow, crowded,
arcuate, _deeply decurrent_, colored like the pileus. =Stem= equal or
slightly tapering upward, hollow, slightly pruinose at the top, _colored
like the pileus_. =Spores= elliptical, 5×3–4µ.

=Pileus= 1–2 in. broad. =Stem= 1–1.5 in. long, 2–3 lines thick.

Decayed wood and among fallen leaves in woods. Albany and Ulster
counties. September and October.

The species is easily recognized by its peculiar uniform color, its
narrow, crowded and generally very decurrent gills and by its bright
rosy-red spores. Sometimes individuals occur in which the gills are less
decurrent. _Peck_, 42d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Mt. Gretna, Pa., among fallen leaves. Sparsely gregarious. September to
November. _McIlvaine._

Edible, good.


=C. conis´sans= Pk.—dusted. =Pileus= thin, convex, glabrous, pale
alutaceous, often _dusted by the copious spores_. =Gills= close,
_adnate_, reddish-brown. =Stem= slender, brittle, hollow, cespitose,
_white_. =Spores= narrowly elliptical, 7.5×4µ.

=Pileus= 1–1.5 in. broad. =Stem= 1–2 in. long, 1–2 lines thick.

Base of an apple tree. Catskill mountains. September.

Remarkable for the bright rosy-red spores which are sometimes so thickly
dusted over the lower pilei of a tuft as to conceal their real color.
The species is very rare. _Peck_, 42d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.


             SPORES VERY PALE FLESH-COLORED, MERELY TINTED.

=C. cæspito´sus= Pk.—tufted. =Pileus= at first convex, firm, nearly
regular, shining, white, then nearly plane, fragile, often irregular or
eccentric, glabrous but with a slight silky luster, _even_, whitish.
=Flesh= white, _taste_ mild. =Gills= narrow, thin, crowded, often
forked, adnate or slightly decurrent, whitish, becoming dingy or
brownish-pink. =Stems= _cespitose_, solid, silky-fibrillose, slightly
mealy at the top, white. =Spores= 5×4µ.

=Pileus= 2–4 in. broad. =Stem= 1.5–3 in. long, 2–4 lines thick.

Thin woods and pastures. Ulster county. September.

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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

This species is perhaps too closely allied to the preceding, but it may
easily be separated by its paler color, closer gills and solid stem,
though this is sometimes hollow from the erosion of insects. _Peck_, 42d
Rep. N.Y. State Bot.


=C. Un´derwoodii= Pk.—in honor of L.M. Underwood. =Pileus= rather thin
but fleshy, nearly plane or slightly depressed in the center, even,
whitish. =Gills= narrow, close, slightly decurrent, pale flesh-colored.
=Stem= rather short, equal or slightly tapering upward, solid, whitish.
=Spores= subglobose, 4–5µ long.

=Pileus= 6–18 lines broad. =Stem= about 1 in. long and 2 lines thick.

Syracuse and Jamesville. September and October. _L.M. Underwood._
_Peck_, 49th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.


                            SPORES ROSY-RED.


=C. erythro´sporus= Pk. _Gr_—red-spored. =Pileus= thin, hemispherical or
strongly convex, glabrous or merely pruinose, pinkish-gray. =Flesh=
whitish tinged with pink, taste farinaceous. =Gills= narrow, crowded,
arcuate, _deeply decurrent_, colored like the pileus. =Stem= equal or
slightly tapering upward, hollow, slightly pruinose at the top, _colored
like the pileus_. =Spores= elliptical, 5×3–4µ.

=Pileus= 1–2 in. broad. =Stem= 1–1.5 in. long, 2–3 lines thick.

Decayed wood and among fallen leaves in woods. Albany and Ulster
counties. September and October.

The species is easily recognized by its peculiar uniform color, its
narrow, crowded and generally very decurrent gills and by its bright
rosy-red spores. Sometimes individuals occur in which the gills are less
decurrent. _Peck_, 42d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Mt. Gretna, Pa., among fallen leaves. Sparsely gregarious. September to
November. _McIlvaine._

Edible, good.


=C. conis´sans= Pk.—dusted. =Pileus= thin, convex, glabrous, pale
alutaceous, often _dusted by the copious spores_. =Gills= close,
_adnate_, reddish-brown. =Stem= slender, brittle, hollow, cespitose,
_white_. =Spores= narrowly elliptical, 7.5×4µ.

=Pileus= 1–1.5 in. broad. =Stem= 1–2 in. long, 1–2 lines thick.

Base of an apple tree. Catskill mountains. September.

Remarkable for the bright rosy-red spores which are sometimes so thickly
dusted over the lower pilei of a tuft as to conceal their real color.
The species is very rare. _Peck_, 42d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.


             SPORES VERY PALE FLESH-COLORED, MERELY TINTED.

=C. cæspito´sus= Pk.—tufted. =Pileus= at first convex, firm, nearly
regular, shining, white, then nearly plane, fragile, often irregular or
eccentric, glabrous but with a slight silky luster, _even_, whitish.
=Flesh= white, _taste_ mild. =Gills= narrow, thin, crowded, often
forked, adnate or slightly decurrent, whitish, becoming dingy or
brownish-pink. =Stems= _cespitose_, solid, silky-fibrillose, slightly
mealy at the top, white. =Spores= 5×4µ.

=Pileus= 2–4 in. broad. =Stem= 1.5–3 in. long, 2–4 lines thick.

Thin woods and pastures. Ulster county. September.

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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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