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
=Cap= 1½ in. across, convex, broadly umbonate, margin involute,
yellowish-brown, silky, innately fibrillose, shining, when young the cap
is round, margin involute. =Veil= white, fibrillose, fugacious, leaving
no trace on stem. =Flesh= thick in center, solid, close-grained, white,
tinged with brown. Tastes strongly as radishes. Skin partially
detachable.
Gills exceedingly beautiful in their deep claret-color, which is
permanent, decurrent.
=Stem= 3 in. long, shining, smooth, white near top, brownish below,
equal, fibrous, stuffed, skin removable.
On ground among pines, near station, Mt. Gretna, Pa. August to frost.
Solitary, gregarious and cespitose.
Taste and smell like radishes. The caps cook well and are of fair
flavor. Makes good patties and croquettes.
_C. cinnabarinus_, Var. 1. Mt. Gretna, Pa., August to frost. On decaying
chestnut stumps.
Cap 1 in. across, shining, convex, orange-brown, white on margin and
under minute appressed squamules, but few on margin; apparent remnant of
a veil on cap, as a viscid skin.
Gills rounded behind, slightly emarginate, like Tricholoma,
grayish-brown when young, becoming a brilliant scarlet, unequal.
Stem 2 in. high, over ¼ in. thick, white, covered with brownish-orange
appressed squamules, often with stained marking of veil or fragments of
veil as ring. Cespitose, connate.
Taste and smell strong like radishes. Flavor in dish is decided but
pleasant. Makes good patties and croquettes.
Specimens were identified by Professor Peck as C. cinnabarinus, as were
those of the preceding. The variations are so great that I give this
place as a variety.
=C. sanguin´eus= Fr.—_sanguis_, blood. =Pileus= 1–1½ in. broad,
_blood-color_, becoming slightly pale when dry, fleshy, thin, convex
then plane, obtuse, occasionally depressed, silky or squamulose. =Flesh=
reddish, paler. =Stem= 2–3 in. long, 2–3 lines thick, stuffed then
hollow, equal (rather attenuated than thickened at the base), here and
there flexuous, with fibrils of the same color, almost darker than the
pileus. Cortina arachnoid, fugacious, red blood-color. =Gills= adnate,
crowded, 2–3 lines broad, quite entire, dark blood-color.
Wholly _dark blood-color_, the stem when compressed pouring forth bloody
juice. Odor of radish. Thinner than species nearest to it. The spores
are ochraceous on a white ground, somewhat ferruginous on a black
ground. _Fries._
=Spores= 6×4µ _W.G.S._
North Carolina, _Curtis_; Massachusetts, _Sprague_, _Farlow_, _Frost_;
Connecticut, _Wright_; New York, _Peck_, 23d Rep.
Edible. _Leuba._
(Plate LXXXVII.)
[Illustration:
CORTINARIUS CINNAMOMEUS.
Natural size.
]
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