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.
McIlvaine, Charles
Cooking (Mushrooms); Edible mushrooms -- North America; Fungi -- North America; Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Poisonous -- North America
Pine woods, especially in sandy soil. Albany county. September to
November.
This is a noble species but not plentiful in our state (N.Y.). The
pileus is said to become greenish very late in the season. The stem, in
the typical form, is described as sulphur-yellow in color, but with us
it is more often white. The scales of the disk are sometimes wanting. In
our plant the taste is slightly farinaceous at first, but it is soon
unpleasant.
Var. _pinastreti_ A. and S. is a slender form having a thin, even
pileus, thinner and more narrow gills and a more slender stem. A.
crassus Scop., A. aureus Schaeff., and A. flavovirens Pers. are recorded
as synonyms of this species. _Peck_, 44th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
Professor Peck later says in “Mushrooms and Their Use,” p. 52: “I
confidently add it to the list of edible species.”
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In pine forests and groves.
September to frost. _McIlvaine._
I have eaten it since 1883. All disagreeable odor about T. equestre
(which I have seldom noticed) disappears upon cooking. The substance is
rather tough, but good.
=T. coryphæ´um= Fr.—chief, leader. From its distinguished appearance.
=Pileus= very fleshy but not compact, convex then plane, obtuse, viscid,
yellowish, streaked with small brownish scales. =Stem= solid, attenuated
upward. =Gills= emarginate, crowded, white, edge yellow.
Large and of striking appearance. In shady beech woods.
Pronounced a good edible by the Boston Myc. Club.
The color of the plants is given as greenish-yellow. Bull. Boston Myc.
Club, 1896.
=T. ustale= Fr.—_uro_, to burn. =Pileus= fleshy, convex, then plane,
obtuse, even, smooth, viscid, bay-brownish. =Stem= stuffed, equal, dry,
rufo-fibrillose, apex naked, silky, nearly smooth. =Gills= emarginate,
crowded, white, at length with reddish spots. _Cooke._
Chiefly in pine woods.
=Pileus= 3 in. =Stem= 2–3 in. long, about ½ in. thick.
=Spores= 5×8µ _W.G.S._; 7–8×5µ _Massee_.
North Carolina, _Curtis_, pine woods, _Schweinitz_; Kansas, _Cragin_.
Massachusetts. Edible. Boston Myc. Club, Bull. No. 5.
=T. resplen´dens= Fr.—shining brightly. =Pileus= fleshy, convex then
nearly plane, even, bare, _viscid, white_, sometimes hyaline-spotted or
yellowish on the disk, shining when dry, the _margin straight_. =Flesh=
white, taste mild, odor pleasant. =Gills= nearly free when young, then
emarginate, somewhat crowded, rather thick, entire, white. =Stem=
_solid_, bare, subbulbous, even, dry, white. =Spores= 8×4µ.
=Pileus= 2–4 in. broad. =Stem= 2–3 in. long, 4–8 lines thick.
Thin woods. Catskill mountains. September. _Peck_, 44th Rep. N.Y. State
Bot.
Mt. Gretna, Pa., in mixed woods. October and November. _McIlvaine._
It is of excellent flavor, consistency and food value.
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