Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them A Selection of Thirty Native Food Varieties Easily Recognizable by their Marked Individualities, with Simple Rules for the Identification of Poisonous Species

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In the purposely restricted scope of these pages I have omitted a large majority of species in Dr. Curtis's list, known to be equally esculent with those which I have selected,...

The objection against _milky mushrooms_ (17) would serve to exclude the poisonous species of Lactarius, but would thus include at least two of the delicious species of the group...

This "poison-cup" may be taken as the cautionary symbol of the genus Amanita, common to all the species. _Any mushroom or toadstool, therefore, whose stem is thus set in a socke...

Before attempting an answer, it is well for me to note right here that Mrs. B., the neighbor, did not eat very much of the toadstool stew; Mrs. R. and Mr. F. each ate about the...

The Campestris is probably the most protean of all mushrooms, and mycologists are even yet at odds as to the proper botanical disposition of many of the contrasting varieties wh...

There are at least four of these edible Russulæ that we are certain of meeting in our walks in the woods: The green Russula (_R. virescens_), with its mottled cap of mouldy or s...

Upon a certain spot on the lawn of one of my neighbors, year after year, without fail, there springs up a most singular crop. For the first two seasons of its appearance it was...

=Pileus:= Rounded convex; diameter two to five inches; surface occasionally smooth and viscid when moist; color usually brownish red, but varying from orange brick red or even b...

The freely expanded specimen of this species is full of beauty, in its wavy fan-like form and flowing lines and flutings presenting a suggestive decorative theme, whether in the...

_L. giganteum._ The largest species. Diameter ten to twenty-five inches; often more spreading in shape than specimen shown; surface smooth; stem hardly apparent; color dingy whi...

Concerning the lavish plenitude of the fungus as a food resource, a passage from a letter of the late Dr. Curtis, of North Carolina, to the Rev. J. M. Berkeley, of England, many...

As already described, the Puff-balls in their white-pulp condition are esculent and afford a delicate relish. The species Giganteus sometimes attains a diameter of nearly two fe...

---- Edible species: plentiful supply of, 13, 35, 303; Beefsteak, 11, 27; Coral, see Clavaria; Elm, 10; "Fairy-ring," 95, 101; False Fairy-ring, 108, 109; Horse, 85, 91-95; Inky...