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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 specimens which I have referred to this species appear to be a small
form with the pileus scarcely more than an inch broad and merely
wrinkled on the disk, not distinctly reticulate as in the type. In the
dried specimens the pileus has assumed a dark violaceous color. The
dimensions of the spores have been taken from the American plant. I do
not find them given by any European author. _Peck_, 46th Rep. N.Y. State
Bot.

In October, 1897, P. reticulatus grew in large quantities on a fallow
lot close by the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The lot was
thickly covered with tall heavy-stemmed weeds, a mat of which, from the
year before was present. The reticulations upon the cap are intricate
and distinct. I have not seen it since.

The whole plant is tender and of fine flavor.




                            =HEBELO´MA= Fr.

                     _Hebe_, youth; _loma_, fringe.


Partial veil fibrillose or absent. =Pileus= smooth, continuous, somewhat
viscid, margin at first incurved. Flesh of stem continuous with that of
the pileus; fleshy, fibrous, clothed, top rather mealy. =Gills=
attached, notched at the stem, edge inclined to be pale. =Spores=
clay-colored.

On the ground.

Closely allied to Inocybe, formerly included in Hebeloma, but differing
in the character of the cuticle of the pileus which in Inocybe is scaly
or fibrillose. Many of the species are strong in smell and taste. None
have hitherto been considered edible and some have been regarded as
poisonous.

                          ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

              INDUSIATI (_indusium_, a garment). Page 283.

Furnished with a ring from the manifest veil, which often makes the
margin of the pileus superficially silky.

              DENUDATI (_denudo_, to lay bare). Page 286.

Pileus smooth. Veil absent. None known to be edible.

                   PUSILLUS (_pusus_, a little boy).

Pileus scarcely an inch broad. None known to be edible.

The writer has not as yet investigated the edible qualities of this
genus to his satisfaction. Much work remains to be done. But two species
of Hebeloma are given as edible. They are good, but do not rank above
second-class. Several others have been tested, but not in sufficient
quantity to report upon their quality with perfect safety. So far as
tested the species have been harmless.


                     INDUSIA´TI. With a ring, 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 specimens which I have referred to this species appear to be a small
form with the pileus scarcely more than an inch broad and merely
wrinkled on the disk, not distinctly reticulate as in the type. In the
dried specimens the pileus has assumed a dark violaceous color. The
dimensions of the spores have been taken from the American plant. I do
not find them given by any European author. _Peck_, 46th Rep. N.Y. State
Bot.

In October, 1897, P. reticulatus grew in large quantities on a fallow
lot close by the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The lot was
thickly covered with tall heavy-stemmed weeds, a mat of which, from the
year before was present. The reticulations upon the cap are intricate
and distinct. I have not seen it since.

The whole plant is tender and of fine flavor.




                            =HEBELO´MA= Fr.

                     _Hebe_, youth; _loma_, fringe.


Partial veil fibrillose or absent. =Pileus= smooth, continuous, somewhat
viscid, margin at first incurved. Flesh of stem continuous with that of
the pileus; fleshy, fibrous, clothed, top rather mealy. =Gills=
attached, notched at the stem, edge inclined to be pale. =Spores=
clay-colored.

On the ground.

Closely allied to Inocybe, formerly included in Hebeloma, but differing
in the character of the cuticle of the pileus which in Inocybe is scaly
or fibrillose. Many of the species are strong in smell and taste. None
have hitherto been considered edible and some have been regarded as
poisonous.

                          ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

              INDUSIATI (_indusium_, a garment). Page 283.

Furnished with a ring from the manifest veil, which often makes the
margin of the pileus superficially silky.

              DENUDATI (_denudo_, to lay bare). Page 286.

Pileus smooth. Veil absent. None known to be edible.

                   PUSILLUS (_pusus_, a little boy).

Pileus scarcely an inch broad. None known to be edible.

The writer has not as yet investigated the edible qualities of this
genus to his satisfaction. Much work remains to be done. But two species
of Hebeloma are given as edible. They are good, but do not rank above
second-class. Several others have been tested, but not in sufficient
quantity to report upon their quality with perfect safety. So far as
tested the species have been harmless.


                     INDUSIA´TI. With a ring, 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.

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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