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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

ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

                         TRICHOLOMATA. Page 52.

Gills sinuately adnexed, stem fleshy, ring often evanescent. (Like
Tricholoma.)

                          CLITOCYBÆ. Page 55.

Gills not sinuate, more or less decurrent, narrowed behind; ring
permanent. (Resembling Clitocybe.)

                           COLLYBLÆ. Page 58.

Gills adnate, equal behind; stem somewhat cartilaginous outside; ring
permanent. (Resembling Collybia.)

[Illustration: Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C. McIlvaine and Val
Starnes.        PLATE XVI.]

  FIG.                                PAGE. FIG.                 PAGE.

  1. Armillaria mellea,                  55 3–4.  Lentinus         230
                                            lepideus,

  2. Armillaria mellea var.              56
  exannulata,

             I.—TRICHOLOMATA. Gills sinuately adnexed, etc.


=A. robus´ta= A. and S.—_robustus_, robust, sturdy. Substance of entire
plant compact. =Pileus= 2–3 in. across, varying in shades of gray and
brown, scaly, fibrillose on margin, decreasing toward center or smooth,
convex or top-shaped and margin involute at first, expanding. =Flesh=
firm, very thick. =Gills= broad, emarginate, nearly free, crowded,
whitish, up to ½ in. broad. =Veil= large, membranaceous, sometimes
floccose, remaining adherent to the stem. =Stem= 1–2 in. long, obese,
solid, tapering at the base, brownish-white and fibrillose below veil,
white and flocculose above, flesh of stem continuous with that of the
cap.

Stevenson gives var. _minor_ with even cap with both gills and ring very
narrow.

=Spores= ovoid-spherical. 7µ. _Q._

Edible, _Curtis_; District Columbia, _Mrs. M. Fuller_.

In mixed woods. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, _McIlvaine_.

The substance of A. robusta differs from all other Armillaria in being
very compact. It is not acrid but has a marked flavor. Cut into small
pieces and well cooked it makes an acceptable dish. It is best in
croquettes and patties, or served with meats.


=A. viscid´ipes= Pk.—_viscidus_, sticky; _pes_, a foot. =Pileus= fleshy,
compact, convex or nearly plane, glabrous, whitish with a slight
yellowish or reddish-yellow tint. =Flesh= white, odor peculiar,
penetrating, sub-alkaline. =Gills= narrow, crowded, sinuate or
subdecurrent, whitish. =Stem= equal, solid, viscid and slightly tinged
with yellow below the narrow membranous ring, whitish above. =Spores=
elliptical, 8×5µ.

=Pileus= 3–6 in. broad. =Stem= 3–4 in. long, 6–12 lines thick.

In mixed woods. Rock City, Dutchess county. October.

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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

ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

                         TRICHOLOMATA. Page 52.

Gills sinuately adnexed, stem fleshy, ring often evanescent. (Like
Tricholoma.)

                          CLITOCYBÆ. Page 55.

Gills not sinuate, more or less decurrent, narrowed behind; ring
permanent. (Resembling Clitocybe.)

                           COLLYBLÆ. Page 58.

Gills adnate, equal behind; stem somewhat cartilaginous outside; ring
permanent. (Resembling Collybia.)

[Illustration: Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C. McIlvaine and Val
Starnes.        PLATE XVI.]

  FIG.                                PAGE. FIG.                 PAGE.

  1. Armillaria mellea,                  55 3–4.  Lentinus         230
                                            lepideus,

  2. Armillaria mellea var.              56
  exannulata,

             I.—TRICHOLOMATA. Gills sinuately adnexed, etc.


=A. robus´ta= A. and S.—_robustus_, robust, sturdy. Substance of entire
plant compact. =Pileus= 2–3 in. across, varying in shades of gray and
brown, scaly, fibrillose on margin, decreasing toward center or smooth,
convex or top-shaped and margin involute at first, expanding. =Flesh=
firm, very thick. =Gills= broad, emarginate, nearly free, crowded,
whitish, up to ½ in. broad. =Veil= large, membranaceous, sometimes
floccose, remaining adherent to the stem. =Stem= 1–2 in. long, obese,
solid, tapering at the base, brownish-white and fibrillose below veil,
white and flocculose above, flesh of stem continuous with that of the
cap.

Stevenson gives var. _minor_ with even cap with both gills and ring very
narrow.

=Spores= ovoid-spherical. 7µ. _Q._

Edible, _Curtis_; District Columbia, _Mrs. M. Fuller_.

In mixed woods. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, _McIlvaine_.

The substance of A. robusta differs from all other Armillaria in being
very compact. It is not acrid but has a marked flavor. Cut into small
pieces and well cooked it makes an acceptable dish. It is best in
croquettes and patties, or served with meats.


=A. viscid´ipes= Pk.—_viscidus_, sticky; _pes_, a foot. =Pileus= fleshy,
compact, convex or nearly plane, glabrous, whitish with a slight
yellowish or reddish-yellow tint. =Flesh= white, odor peculiar,
penetrating, sub-alkaline. =Gills= narrow, crowded, sinuate or
subdecurrent, whitish. =Stem= equal, solid, viscid and slightly tinged
with yellow below the narrow membranous ring, whitish above. =Spores=
elliptical, 8×5µ.

=Pileus= 3–6 in. broad. =Stem= 3–4 in. long, 6–12 lines thick.

In mixed woods. Rock City, Dutchess county. October.

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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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