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

In June, 1886, the writer found this species in oak woods near Philadelphia. It grew on fallen trunks and on decaying spots of living timber.

It is edible, and of good flavor, but is rough in the mouth. If found in quantity, the extract of it would make a delicate soup.

Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C. McIlvaine. Plate XXXVII.

Fig.	Page.	Fig.	Page.
1. Hygrophorus pratensis (white var.),	[152]	5. Hygrophorus cantharellus,	[156]
2. Hygrophorus pratensis (colored var.),	[152]	6. Hygrophorus virgineus,	[153]
3. Hygrophorus pratensis (after rain),	[152]	7. Hygrophorus niveus,	[153]
4. Hygrophorus miniatus,	[159]

HYGROPH´ORUS Fr.

Gr.—moist; Gr.—to bear.

(Plate XXXVIII.)

Hygrophorus pratensis.