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

Stem absent.

All the species known to be edible belong to Mesopus.

Me´sopus.

* Stem solid.

C. ciba´rius Fr.—cibaria, food. (Plate [XLVI], fig. 4, p. 214. Plate [XLVII].) Pileus fleshy, obconic, smooth, egg-yellow, slightly depressed. Gills thick, distant, more or less branching and anastomosing, concolorous. Stem firm, solid, often tapering downward, concolorous. Flesh white.

Height 2–4 in., breadth of pileus 2–3 in. Stem 3–6 lines thick.

In open woods and grassy places. Common. July and August.

Edible. The smell of apricots is not always clearly perceptible in American specimens. Peck, Monograph New York Species of Cantharellus, Rep. 23.

Spores 6×8µ W.G.S.; 7.6×5µ Morgan; spheroid-ellipsoid, 8–9×5–6µ K.; 11µ Q.

Reported from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Columbia river to Louisiana. June to September.