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

[***] Tawny or yellow.

[****] Olivaceous-umber.

***** Dingy cinereous or livid.

None known to be edible.

Camarophyllus (Gr.—a vault; a leaf). Page [152].

(From the arched shape of the gills.)

Veil none. Stem even, smooth or fibrillose, not rough with points. Pileus firm, opaque, moist after rain, not viscid. Gills distant, arcuate.

[*] Gills deeply and at length obconically decurrent.

[**] Gills ventricose, sinuately arcuate or plano-adnate.

Hygrocybe (Gr—moist; Gr—the head). Page 155.