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
=F. hy´brida= Fr.—_hybrida_, a hybrid. =Pileus= about 2 in. broad, at
first tawny-cinnamon, then tawny-orange, fleshy, hemispherical with the
margin involute, then expanded, obtuse, regular and well formed, even,
_smooth, moist_. =Flesh= moderately compact, pallid. =Stem= 2–3 in.
long, 4–5 lines thick, at first _stuffed_ with a soft pith, then hollow,
_attenuated_ (almost conico-attenuated) _upward_, whitish with adpressed
silky-hairy down (becoming tawny when the down is rubbed off) slightly
striate, with white hairs at the base, and somewhat mealy at the apex.
=Veil= _manifest in the form of an annular zone at the apex of the
stem_, white or at length colored with the spores. =Gills= adnate,
somewhat crowded, _light yellow then tawny, not spotted_. _Fries._
=Spores= elliptical, tawny-ochraceous, 7–8×4–5µ _Massee_; 6×4µ _W.P._
Mt. Gretna, Pa., August, September, 1898. On ground under pine trees.
Gregarious. _W.H. Rorer._ Not elsewhere reported.
This is a handsome plant, quite prolific in the large pine groves at Mt.
Gretna, Pa. The caps are of good flavor.
=F. mag´na= Pk.—_magnus_, large. =Pileus= fleshy, broadly convex, soft,
dry, fibrillose and somewhat streaked, pale yellow or buff, the margin
commonly becoming revolute with age. =Flesh= whitish or yellowish.
=Gills= close, adnate or slightly decurrent, often crisped or wavy
toward the stem, about three lines wide, ochraceous. =Stem= equal or
thickened toward the base, fleshy-fibrous, solid, elastic, fibrillose,
colored like the pileus, brighter yellow within. =Spores= subelliptical,
ochraceous, 10×6µ.
Cespitose. =Pileus= 4–6 in. broad. =Stem= 3–4 in. long, 8–12 lines
thick.
About the base of trees. Westchester county. October.
This is a large and showy species. The stems are sometimes united at the
base into a solid mass. The young gills are probably yellow, but I have
seen only mature specimens. _Peck_, 50th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
New Jersey, Trenton, ground in clearing, in pairs and singly. November,
_E.B. Sterling_; Mt. Gretna, Pa. Mixed thin woods. October to November.
Near trees. Cespitose, _McIlvaine_.
Individuals of all ages were found and eaten. The young gills are very
light yellow, darkening to a deep, rich yellow.
The caps are of good substance and flavor. When very young the stems are
edible.
[Illustration]
=TUBA´RIA= W.G.S.
_Tuba_, a trumpet.
(Plate LXXVII.)
[Illustration:
TUBARIA FURFURACEA.
Natural size.
]
=Stem= _somewhat cartilaginous, fistulose_. =Pileus= somewhat
membranaceous, often clothed with the universal floccose veil. =Gills=
_somewhat decurrent_. =Spores= rust-color or (in Phæoti) brownish-rust
color.
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