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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. granulo´sa= Batsch.—_granosus_, full of grains. =Pileus= thin,
convex or nearly plane, sometimes almost umbonate, rough, with numerous
granular or branny scales, often radiately wrinkled, rusty-yellow or
reddish-yellow, often growing paler with age. =Flesh= white or
reddish-tinged. =Gills= close, rounded behind and usually slightly
adnexed, white. =Stem= equal or slightly thickened at the base, stuffed
or hollow, white above the ring, colored and adorned like the pileus
below it. =Ring= slight, evanescent. =Spores= elliptical 4–5×3–4µ.

=Plant= 1–2.5 in. high. =Pileus= 1–2.5 in. broad. =Stem= 1–3 lines
thick. Woods, copses and waste places. Common. August to October.

This is a small species with a short stem and granular reddish-yellow
pileus, and gills slightly attached to the stem, a character by which it
differs from all the preceding. The ring is very small and fugacious,
being little more than the abrupt termination to the coating of the
stem. _Peck_, 35th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= 5–6×3µ _B._; 3×4µ _W.G.S._; elliptical, 4–5×3–4µ _Peck_.

Var. _rufes´cens_ B. and Br. Pure white at first, then partially turning
red and in drying acquiring everywhere a reddish tint.

Var. _al´bida_ Pk. Persistently white.

Though small many plants grow neighboring. Being fleshy for their size,
and of pleasing quality, they well repay gathering. Remove stems.

Open woods, Angora, West Philadelphia; Haddonfield, New Jersey,
_McIlvaine_.


             _A._ CUTICLE VISCID. NEITHER SCALY NOR WARTY.


=L. delica´ta= Fr.—_delicatus_, delicate. Up to 1½ in. across, reddish,
becoming yellowish toward margin. Flesh well proportioned to cap,
convex, obscurely umbonate, glabrous, slightly viscid. =Stem= 1½-2 in.
long, very thin, but covered with dense downy scales, equal, lighter
than cap. =Ring= usually entire, membranaceous, fluffy from scales.
=Gills= free, crowded, ventricose, white.

Haddonfield, N.J., January, 1896–97, in hot-houses. _McIlvaine._

A delicate, delicious Lepiota. Though small, it is meaty. Its appearance
in hot-houses (it is found in woods) insures a crop at a time of year
when other species are not plentiful, and when anything edible in the
toadstool line is most welcome to their lovers.


=L. lenticula´ris= Lasch.—_lenticula_, a lentil. =Pileus= at first
globose, then convex, even, naked, pinkish-tan color. =Flesh= thick,
spongy, white. =Gills= close to stem, but free from it, ventricose,
crowded, whitish. =Stem= 4–6 in. high, thick, equal or swollen at base,
solid but spongy, more or less covered with scales; above the ring it is
frequently covered with drops of water more or less green, which leave
spots when they dry. =Veil= superior and very large.

=Pileus= 3–4 in. across. =Stem= 4–6 in. long, ½ in. and more thick. In
damp woods.

Redman’s Woods, Haddonfield, N.J. September, 1894. _McIlvaine._

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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. granulo´sa= Batsch.—_granosus_, full of grains. =Pileus= thin,
convex or nearly plane, sometimes almost umbonate, rough, with numerous
granular or branny scales, often radiately wrinkled, rusty-yellow or
reddish-yellow, often growing paler with age. =Flesh= white or
reddish-tinged. =Gills= close, rounded behind and usually slightly
adnexed, white. =Stem= equal or slightly thickened at the base, stuffed
or hollow, white above the ring, colored and adorned like the pileus
below it. =Ring= slight, evanescent. =Spores= elliptical 4–5×3–4µ.

=Plant= 1–2.5 in. high. =Pileus= 1–2.5 in. broad. =Stem= 1–3 lines
thick. Woods, copses and waste places. Common. August to October.

This is a small species with a short stem and granular reddish-yellow
pileus, and gills slightly attached to the stem, a character by which it
differs from all the preceding. The ring is very small and fugacious,
being little more than the abrupt termination to the coating of the
stem. _Peck_, 35th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= 5–6×3µ _B._; 3×4µ _W.G.S._; elliptical, 4–5×3–4µ _Peck_.

Var. _rufes´cens_ B. and Br. Pure white at first, then partially turning
red and in drying acquiring everywhere a reddish tint.

Var. _al´bida_ Pk. Persistently white.

Though small many plants grow neighboring. Being fleshy for their size,
and of pleasing quality, they well repay gathering. Remove stems.

Open woods, Angora, West Philadelphia; Haddonfield, New Jersey,
_McIlvaine_.


             _A._ CUTICLE VISCID. NEITHER SCALY NOR WARTY.


=L. delica´ta= Fr.—_delicatus_, delicate. Up to 1½ in. across, reddish,
becoming yellowish toward margin. Flesh well proportioned to cap,
convex, obscurely umbonate, glabrous, slightly viscid. =Stem= 1½-2 in.
long, very thin, but covered with dense downy scales, equal, lighter
than cap. =Ring= usually entire, membranaceous, fluffy from scales.
=Gills= free, crowded, ventricose, white.

Haddonfield, N.J., January, 1896–97, in hot-houses. _McIlvaine._

A delicate, delicious Lepiota. Though small, it is meaty. Its appearance
in hot-houses (it is found in woods) insures a crop at a time of year
when other species are not plentiful, and when anything edible in the
toadstool line is most welcome to their lovers.


=L. lenticula´ris= Lasch.—_lenticula_, a lentil. =Pileus= at first
globose, then convex, even, naked, pinkish-tan color. =Flesh= thick,
spongy, white. =Gills= close to stem, but free from it, ventricose,
crowded, whitish. =Stem= 4–6 in. high, thick, equal or swollen at base,
solid but spongy, more or less covered with scales; above the ring it is
frequently covered with drops of water more or less green, which leave
spots when they dry. =Veil= superior and very large.

=Pileus= 3–4 in. across. =Stem= 4–6 in. long, ½ in. and more thick. In
damp woods.

Redman’s Woods, Haddonfield, N.J. September, 1894. _McIlvaine._

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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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