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.
McIlvaine, Charles
Cooking (Mushrooms); Edible mushrooms -- North America; Fungi -- North America; Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Poisonous -- North America
=P. capera´ta= Pers.—_capero_, to wrinkle. (Plate LXXI, fig. 2, page
268.) =Pileus= 3–5 in. broad, more or less intensely yellow, fleshy, but
thin in proportion to its size and robust stem, ovate then expanded,
obtuse, viscid only when moist and not truly so, even at the disk,
wrinkled in pits at the sides, _incrusted with white superficial
flocci_. =Stem= 4–6 in. long, more than 1 in. thick, solid, stout,
cylindrical with exception of the base which is often tuberous, shining
white, _scaly above the ring, which is membranaceous, reflexo-pendulous,
and broken into squamules at the apex_. =Gills= adnate, crowded, thin,
somewhat serrated, _clay_-cinnamon.
When young the pileus is incrusted with the veil or with white
mealy-floccose soft, hairy down, which is crowded on the even disk and
scaly towards the thin pitted-furrowed margin; and as this separates the
pileus is naked. Veil universal, floccoso-mealy, at the first cohering
in the form of a volva but not continuous; in rainy weather remaining in
the form of a volva at the base. =Spores= dark ferruginous on a white
ground, paler on a black ground. There is a smaller form (A. macropus
Pers.) in pine woods, pileus even and paler. =Stem= 3 in. long, and
without a tuberous base. =Ring= oblique and often incomplete. _Stev._
=Spores= 10µ _B. and Br._; 12×4µ _W.P._; spheroid-ellipsoid, uniguttate,
11–12×8–9µ _K._; 12×4.5µ _Massee_.
Not previously reported.
This fungus occurs sparingly in rich woods near Boston. It is much
esteemed in Germany, and eagerly sought by the common people, who call
it familiarly the “Zigeuner” (Gypsy). Boston Myc. Club Bull. 1896.
I have found this species in but one place—on the south hill of the
great Chester valley, Pa., where it grows plentifully in woods. The
taste raw was slightly acrid, but when cooked this disappeared. Many ate
of the species and enjoyed it.
=P. togula´ris= Bull.—_togula_, a little cloak. From the ample ring.
=Pileus= 1½ in. broad, _pallid ochraceous_, fleshy, soft, bell-shaped
then expanded, obtuse, orbicular, _without striæ_, smooth. =Flesh= thin,
soft, becoming yellow. =Stem= 3–4 in. long, 2 lines thick, tubed, rigid,
equal, cylindrical, rough with stiff fibers, naked and becoming yellow
at the apex, becoming dingy brown downward. =Ring= medial, more than 1
in. distant, entire, spreading-reflexed. =Gills= adnato-separating,
ventricose, crowded, narrowed in front, becoming yellow, at length pale
rust-color, never becoming dingy brown.
Protean, slender, very variable in stature, growing in troops. _b._ More
slender, but densely gregarious, with the wholly pallid smooth stem
thinner, often flexuous. This form is exactly A. mesodactylus Berk. _c._
Very small. Pileus 1 in. =Stem= 1 in. or a little more, scarcely 1 line
thick, very flexuous, becoming rust-color. _Stevenson._
=Spores= elliptical, 8×3.5µ _Massee_.
New Jersey, on decayed chips mixed with dirt. May, 1898. _E.B.
Sterling._
Not previously reported.
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