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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 volva in this species must be very slight, as its remains quickly
disappear from the bulb of the stem. The remains carried up by the
pileus form slight warts or thin whitish areolate patches. The annulus
is present in very young plants, but is often wanting in mature ones, in
which state the plant might be mistaken for a species of Amanitopsis.
Its true affinity is with the tribe to which A. rubescens belongs. As in
that species, the bulb soon becomes naked and exhibits no remains of the
volva. It is similar to A. farinosa also in this respect, but quite
unlike it in color, in the adornments of the pileus and in the character
of its margin, which is even in the young plant and but slightly striate
in the mature state. Its dimensions are said sometimes to exceed those
here given, and it is reported to have been eaten without harm and to be
of an excellent flavor. I have had no opportunity to try. _Peck_, Bull.
Torrey Bot. Club, Vol. 27, January, 1900.




                          =AMANITOP´SIS= Roze.

                    _Amanita_; _opsis_, resembling.

Having a universal veil at first completely enveloping the young plant,
which soon bursts through, carrying particles of it on the pileus, where
they appear as scattered warts readily brushed off; the remainder or
volva closely enwraps the base of the stem. Ring absent. Spores white.
This genus was formerly included in Amanita. It differs from Amanita in
the absence of a ring or collar upon the stem and in the more sheathing
volva. It differs from Lepiota in having a volva.

Close observation is necessary in collecting Amanitopsis for the table.
_It has no trace of ring or veil upon the stem._ So far as the species
are known no poisonous one exists. But Amanita spreta Pk., which is
deadly, so closely resembles forms of Amanitopsis that those confident
of their knowledge will be deceived. The veil or traces of veil, which
Amanita spreta always has, sometimes so adheres to and wraps the stem
that it is not noticeable without close examination, thus giving to it
every appearance of an Amanitopsis.

The volva of A. spreta is attached for a considerable distance to the
base of the tapering stem, and is not readily removed. This is a guide
to detect it. It is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Amanitopsis corresponds to Volvaria in the pink-spored series, in which,
as far as known, there is no poisonous species.

All American species of Amanitopsis are given. Several have not been
tested by the writer because of lack of opportunity.

[Illustration: Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C.
McIlvaine.          PLATE X.]

 FIG.                          PAGE. FIG.                         PAGE.

 1.  AMANITOPSIS VAGINATA,        28 5.  MYCENA GALERICULATA,       127

 2.  AMANITOPSIS VAGINATA,        29 6.  MYCENA PROLIFERA,          126
 VAR. LIVIDA,

 3.  AMANITOPSIS NIVALIS,         29 7.  MYCENA PROLIFERA           126
                                     (SECTION),

 4.  AMANITOPSIS STRANGULATA,     30

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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 volva in this species must be very slight, as its remains quickly
disappear from the bulb of the stem. The remains carried up by the
pileus form slight warts or thin whitish areolate patches. The annulus
is present in very young plants, but is often wanting in mature ones, in
which state the plant might be mistaken for a species of Amanitopsis.
Its true affinity is with the tribe to which A. rubescens belongs. As in
that species, the bulb soon becomes naked and exhibits no remains of the
volva. It is similar to A. farinosa also in this respect, but quite
unlike it in color, in the adornments of the pileus and in the character
of its margin, which is even in the young plant and but slightly striate
in the mature state. Its dimensions are said sometimes to exceed those
here given, and it is reported to have been eaten without harm and to be
of an excellent flavor. I have had no opportunity to try. _Peck_, Bull.
Torrey Bot. Club, Vol. 27, January, 1900.




                          =AMANITOP´SIS= Roze.

                    _Amanita_; _opsis_, resembling.

Having a universal veil at first completely enveloping the young plant,
which soon bursts through, carrying particles of it on the pileus, where
they appear as scattered warts readily brushed off; the remainder or
volva closely enwraps the base of the stem. Ring absent. Spores white.
This genus was formerly included in Amanita. It differs from Amanita in
the absence of a ring or collar upon the stem and in the more sheathing
volva. It differs from Lepiota in having a volva.

Close observation is necessary in collecting Amanitopsis for the table.
_It has no trace of ring or veil upon the stem._ So far as the species
are known no poisonous one exists. But Amanita spreta Pk., which is
deadly, so closely resembles forms of Amanitopsis that those confident
of their knowledge will be deceived. The veil or traces of veil, which
Amanita spreta always has, sometimes so adheres to and wraps the stem
that it is not noticeable without close examination, thus giving to it
every appearance of an Amanitopsis.

The volva of A. spreta is attached for a considerable distance to the
base of the tapering stem, and is not readily removed. This is a guide
to detect it. It is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Amanitopsis corresponds to Volvaria in the pink-spored series, in which,
as far as known, there is no poisonous species.

All American species of Amanitopsis are given. Several have not been
tested by the writer because of lack of opportunity.

[Illustration: Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C.
McIlvaine.          PLATE X.]

 FIG.                          PAGE. FIG.                         PAGE.

 1.  AMANITOPSIS VAGINATA,        28 5.  MYCENA GALERICULATA,       127

 2.  AMANITOPSIS VAGINATA,        29 6.  MYCENA PROLIFERA,          126
 VAR. LIVIDA,

 3.  AMANITOPSIS NIVALIS,         29 7.  MYCENA PROLIFERA           126
                                     (SECTION),

 4.  AMANITOPSIS STRANGULATA,     30

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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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