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

This genus is analogous to Claudopus, pink-spored, and Crepidotus, brown-spored.

Spores white, but those of P. sapidus are faintly tinged with lilac, and of P. ostreatus, var. euosmus, with purple.

ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

Excentrici. Page [137].

Pileus entire, laterally extended, excentric, not truly lateral.

[*] Veil fugacious, fragments adhering to stem or margin of pileus.

[**] Veil none, gills sinuate or obtusely adnate.

[***] Veil none, gills very decurrent, stem distinct, almost vertical.

[****] Veil none, gills very decurrent, stem proper absent, pileus lateral, extended behind into a short, stem-like oblique base.

Dimidiati. Page [144].