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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

=L. Mor´gani= Pk.—in honor of Professor Morgan. (Plate XIV.) =Pileus=
fleshy, soft, at first subglobose, then expanded or even depressed,
white, the brownish or yellowish cuticle breaking up into scales except
on the disk. =Gills= close, lanceolate, remote, white, then green.
=Stem= firm, equal or tapering upward, subbulbous, smooth,
webby-stuffed, whitish, tinged with brown. =Ring= rather large, movable.
=Flesh= both of the pileus and stem white, changing to reddish and then
to yellowish when cut or bruised. =Spores= ovate or subelliptical,
mostly uninucleate, sordid green, 10–13×7–8µ.

=Plant= 6–8 in. high. =Pileus= 5–9 in. broad. =Stem= 6–12 lines thick.
_Peck_ in Bot. Gaz., March, 1879.

Open dry grassy places. Dayton, Ohio. _A.P. Morgan._

This species is remarkable because of the peculiar color of the spores.
No green-spored Agaric, so far as I am aware, has before been
discovered, and no one of the five series, in which the very numerous
species of the genus have been arranged, is characterized in such a way
as to receive this species.

It seems a little hasty to found a series (Viridispori) on the strength
of a single species. Until other species of such a supposed series shall
be discovered it seems best to regard this as an aberrant member of the
white-spored series. The same course has been taken with those Agarics
which have sordid or yellowish or lilac-tinted spores.

It gives me great pleasure to dedicate this fine species to its
discoverer Mr. Morgan. _Peck._

Commonly 6–8 in. high, 5–9 in. diameter, though larger specimens are
sometimes found. It is the most conspicuous Agaric in the meadows and
pastures of the Miami valley; it appears to flourish from spring to
autumn whenever there is abundance of rain.

It is heavier and stouter than L. procera and I am disposed to claim
that it is the largest Agaric in the world. =Spores= 10–12×7–8µ. In
immature specimens they are greenish-yellow. _Morgan._

Kansas, _Bartholomew_ (_Peck_, Rep. 50); Kansas, _Cragin_; Alabama, _U.
and E._; Georgia, _Benson_; Louisiana, _Rev. A.B. Langlois_; Michigan,
_C.F. Wheeler_ (_Lloyd_, Myc. Notes); Texas, _Prof. W.S. Carter_;
Indiana, _H.I. Miller_.

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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

=L. Mor´gani= Pk.—in honor of Professor Morgan. (Plate XIV.) =Pileus=
fleshy, soft, at first subglobose, then expanded or even depressed,
white, the brownish or yellowish cuticle breaking up into scales except
on the disk. =Gills= close, lanceolate, remote, white, then green.
=Stem= firm, equal or tapering upward, subbulbous, smooth,
webby-stuffed, whitish, tinged with brown. =Ring= rather large, movable.
=Flesh= both of the pileus and stem white, changing to reddish and then
to yellowish when cut or bruised. =Spores= ovate or subelliptical,
mostly uninucleate, sordid green, 10–13×7–8µ.

=Plant= 6–8 in. high. =Pileus= 5–9 in. broad. =Stem= 6–12 lines thick.
_Peck_ in Bot. Gaz., March, 1879.

Open dry grassy places. Dayton, Ohio. _A.P. Morgan._

This species is remarkable because of the peculiar color of the spores.
No green-spored Agaric, so far as I am aware, has before been
discovered, and no one of the five series, in which the very numerous
species of the genus have been arranged, is characterized in such a way
as to receive this species.

It seems a little hasty to found a series (Viridispori) on the strength
of a single species. Until other species of such a supposed series shall
be discovered it seems best to regard this as an aberrant member of the
white-spored series. The same course has been taken with those Agarics
which have sordid or yellowish or lilac-tinted spores.

It gives me great pleasure to dedicate this fine species to its
discoverer Mr. Morgan. _Peck._

Commonly 6–8 in. high, 5–9 in. diameter, though larger specimens are
sometimes found. It is the most conspicuous Agaric in the meadows and
pastures of the Miami valley; it appears to flourish from spring to
autumn whenever there is abundance of rain.

It is heavier and stouter than L. procera and I am disposed to claim
that it is the largest Agaric in the world. =Spores= 10–12×7–8µ. In
immature specimens they are greenish-yellow. _Morgan._

Kansas, _Bartholomew_ (_Peck_, Rep. 50); Kansas, _Cragin_; Alabama, _U.
and E._; Georgia, _Benson_; Louisiana, _Rev. A.B. Langlois_; Michigan,
_C.F. Wheeler_ (_Lloyd_, Myc. Notes); Texas, _Prof. W.S. Carter_;
Indiana, _H.I. Miller_.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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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