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.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

[*] Pileus colored or becoming pale, the surface (at least under a lens) innately flocculose or silky, bibulous, not moist.

[**] Pileus colored or pallid, smooth, moist in rainy weather.

[***] Pileus shining whitish, with scattered superficial flocci or becoming smooth.

B. Pileus Fleshy-Membranaceous.

Flesh thin, soft, watery, hygrophanous.

Cyathiformes (cup-shaped). Page [104].

Flesh of pileus thin, consisting of two separable plates, disk not compact, hygrophanous, depressed then cup-shaped; gills at first adnate then decurrent, descending, straight. Color dingy when moist.

Orbiformes (round-shaped). Page [109].

Pileus somewhat fleshy, hygrophanous, convex then flattened or depressed, polished, not squamulose nor mealy; gills plane, horizontal, thin, crowded, adnate or decurrent with a small tooth. Color dingy or becoming watery pale.

[*] Gills becoming ash-colored. Pileus at first dark.