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

Dapetes (daps, a feast). Page [170].

Stem central. Gills naked. Milk highly colored from the first.

Russularia (inclining to Russula). Page [173].

Stem central. Gills pallid then discolored, at length dark and powdered with the white spores. Milk at first white, mild, or from mild becoming acrid.

[*] Viscidi—viscidus, viscid, sticky. Pileus viscid at first.

[**] Impoliti—impolitus, unpolished. Pileus squamulose, downy or pruinose.

[***] Glabrati—glaber, smooth. Pileus polished, smooth.

Pleuropus (pleura, side; pous, a foot).

Stem excentric or lateral. Growing on trunks. None known to be edible.

I.—Piperi´tes.