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

Photographed by Dr. J.R. Weist. Plate XXIX.
COLLYBIA RADICATA.

ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

Series A. Gills White or Brightly Colored, Not Gray. Flesh White.

Striæpedes (striate-stemmed). Page [113].

Stem stout, hollow or imperfectly filled with a spongy pith; grooved or striate with fibers.

[*] Gills broad, rather distant.

[**] Gills narrow, crowded.

Vestipedes (clothed-stemmed). Page [118].

Stem thin, equal, hollow or with a pith, even, velvety, downy or covered with a bloom.