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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

=T. columbet´ta= Fr.—_columba_, a pigeon. (Plate XVIII, fig. 5, p. 60.)
=Pileus= convex, then nearly plane, fleshy, obtuse, rigid, somewhat
flexuous, dry, _at first bare, then silky-fibrillose_, becoming even or
scaly, _white_, the margin at first _involute_, more or less tomentose.
=Flesh= white, taste _mild_. =Gills= close, emarginate, thin, white.
=Stem= stout, solid, unequal, nearly bare, white. =Spores= 7–8×4.5µ.

The species is very variable and the following varieties have been
described:

Var. _A_. =Pileus= nearly always repand or lobed, at first bare, even,
at length cracked-scaly, often reddish spotted, the margin when young
inflexed, tomentose. =Stem= obese, even, unequal, swollen, an inch
thick. The typical form.

Birch wood among mosses.

Var. _B_. =Pileus= subflexuous, silky-fibrillose, at length scaly,
sometimes dingy-brown spotted, the margin scarcely tomentose. =Stem=
longer, equal or slightly narrowed at the base.

Bushy places. Intermediate between _A_ and _C_.

Var. _C_. =Pileus= regular, flattened, evidently fibrillose, sometimes
spotted with blue, four inches broad. =Stem= equal, cylindrical,
fibrillose-striate, four inches long.

Beech woods. A showy variety so diverse from variety _A_ that it might
be regarded as a distinct species, did not variety _B_ connect them, and
so much resemble both that it might with equal propriety be referred to
either.

=Pileus= 2–4 in. broad. =Stem= 1–4 in. long, 3–12 lines thick.

Woods and pastures. Albany county, N.Y.

It may be distinguished from T. album by its mild taste. It is recorded
as edible. _Peck_, 44th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Edible, _Curtis_, _Cooke_, _Stevenson_.

This much varied Tricholoma is as varied in its habitat. I have found it
on vacant lots in Philadelphia, in mixed woods at Devon, Pa., and in the
forests of the West Virginia mountains, and eaten it since 1881.

It cooks readily and is of mild, agreeable flavor.


=T. ru´tilans= Schaeff.—_rutilo_, to be reddish. =Pileus= fleshy,
campanulate becoming plane, dry, at first _covered with a dark-red or
purplish tomentum_ then somewhat scaly, the margin thin, at first
involute. =Flesh= yellow. =Gills= crowded, rounded, _yellow, thickened
and downy on the edge_. =Stem= somewhat hollow, nearly equal or slightly
thickened or bulbous at the base, soft, pale-yellow variegated with red
or purplish floccose scales. =Spores= 6.5–8×6.5µ.

(Plate XXI.)

[Illustration:

  TRICHOLOMA RUTILANS.
  About three-eights natural size.
]

=Pileus= 2–4 in. broad. =Stem= 2–4 in. long, 5–8 lines thick.

On or about pine stumps, rarely on hemlock trunks. July to November.
_Peck_, 44th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= subglobose, 5–6µ diameter _Massee_; 6–8×6µ _B_.; 6×9µ _W.G.S._

West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. May to November. _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

=T. columbet´ta= Fr.—_columba_, a pigeon. (Plate XVIII, fig. 5, p. 60.)
=Pileus= convex, then nearly plane, fleshy, obtuse, rigid, somewhat
flexuous, dry, _at first bare, then silky-fibrillose_, becoming even or
scaly, _white_, the margin at first _involute_, more or less tomentose.
=Flesh= white, taste _mild_. =Gills= close, emarginate, thin, white.
=Stem= stout, solid, unequal, nearly bare, white. =Spores= 7–8×4.5µ.

The species is very variable and the following varieties have been
described:

Var. _A_. =Pileus= nearly always repand or lobed, at first bare, even,
at length cracked-scaly, often reddish spotted, the margin when young
inflexed, tomentose. =Stem= obese, even, unequal, swollen, an inch
thick. The typical form.

Birch wood among mosses.

Var. _B_. =Pileus= subflexuous, silky-fibrillose, at length scaly,
sometimes dingy-brown spotted, the margin scarcely tomentose. =Stem=
longer, equal or slightly narrowed at the base.

Bushy places. Intermediate between _A_ and _C_.

Var. _C_. =Pileus= regular, flattened, evidently fibrillose, sometimes
spotted with blue, four inches broad. =Stem= equal, cylindrical,
fibrillose-striate, four inches long.

Beech woods. A showy variety so diverse from variety _A_ that it might
be regarded as a distinct species, did not variety _B_ connect them, and
so much resemble both that it might with equal propriety be referred to
either.

=Pileus= 2–4 in. broad. =Stem= 1–4 in. long, 3–12 lines thick.

Woods and pastures. Albany county, N.Y.

It may be distinguished from T. album by its mild taste. It is recorded
as edible. _Peck_, 44th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Edible, _Curtis_, _Cooke_, _Stevenson_.

This much varied Tricholoma is as varied in its habitat. I have found it
on vacant lots in Philadelphia, in mixed woods at Devon, Pa., and in the
forests of the West Virginia mountains, and eaten it since 1881.

It cooks readily and is of mild, agreeable flavor.


=T. ru´tilans= Schaeff.—_rutilo_, to be reddish. =Pileus= fleshy,
campanulate becoming plane, dry, at first _covered with a dark-red or
purplish tomentum_ then somewhat scaly, the margin thin, at first
involute. =Flesh= yellow. =Gills= crowded, rounded, _yellow, thickened
and downy on the edge_. =Stem= somewhat hollow, nearly equal or slightly
thickened or bulbous at the base, soft, pale-yellow variegated with red
or purplish floccose scales. =Spores= 6.5–8×6.5µ.

(Plate XXI.)

[Illustration:

  TRICHOLOMA RUTILANS.
  About three-eights natural size.
]

=Pileus= 2–4 in. broad. =Stem= 2–4 in. long, 5–8 lines thick.

On or about pine stumps, rarely on hemlock trunks. July to November.
_Peck_, 44th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

=Spores= subglobose, 5–6µ diameter _Massee_; 6–8×6µ _B_.; 6×9µ _W.G.S._

West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. May to November. _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.

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