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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. — John Shaqi

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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

2. AMANITA PHALLOIDES (WHITE        7 5. AMANITA FROSTIANA,         16
 VAR.),

 3. AMANITA PHALLOIDES (BROWN        7 6. GYROMITRA ESCULENTA,      546
 VAR.),

In woods. Uncommon. August to October.

Fetid, poisonous. _Stevenson._

=Spores= spheroid or subspheroid, 10–16µ, _K._; 8µ _W.P._; sub-globose,
8–10µ _Massee_.

POISONOUS.

I think it a variety of A. phalloides.


=A. phalloi´des Fr.= _Gr._—phallus-like. (Plate VI, figs. 2, 3, p. 6.)
=Pileus= 3–4 in. broad, commonly shining white or lemon-yellow, fleshy,
oval bell-shaped, then expanded, _obtuse_, covered over with a pellicle
which is _viscid_ (not glutinous) in wet weather, naked, rarely
sprinkled with one or two fragments of the volva, the _regular margin
even_. =Stem= 3–5 in. long, ½ in. and more thick, solid downward,
bulbous, hollow and attenuated upward, _rather smooth_, white. =Ring=
_superior_, reflexed, slightly striate, swollen, commonly entire, white.
=Volva= more or less buried in the soil, bulbous, _semifree_, bursting
open in a torn manner at the apex, with a lax border. =Gills= free,
ventricose, 4 lines broad, shining white. _Fries._

=Pileus= very variable in color, commonly white or yellow (A. citrina
Pers.), becoming green (A. viridis Pers.), olivaceous and occasionally
variegated with tiger spots; in late autumn with the disk almost black
but whitish round the margin. Odor somewhat fetid, but little remarkable
as compared with that of A. virosa.

In woods. Frequent. August to November.

A very POISONOUS and dangerous species. _Stevenson._

=Spores= 8–9µ _W.G.S._; 8–10µ _B._; 7–9µ diam. _Massee_; globose, 7.6×6µ
_Peck_.

=Pileus= at first ovate or subcampanulate, then expanded, slightly
viscid when young and moist, smooth or rarely adorned by a few fragments
of the volva, _even on the margin_, white, yellowish-brown or
blackish-brown. =Lamellæ= rather broad, rounded behind, free, white.
Stem equal or slightly tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, smooth or
slightly floccose, ringed, _bulbous_, the ruptured volva either
appressed loose or merely forming a narrow margin to the bulb.

=Plant= 4–8 in. high. =Pileus= 2–5 in. broad. =Stem= 3–6 lines thick.

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