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

Height 2–3 in., breadth of Pileus 8–15 lines.

Mossy ground in woods. Catskill and Adirondack mountains, also Sandlake. August to October.

This is regarded by some as a variety of A. tubæformis. Peck, 23d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

In mixed and scrub-pine woods near Haddonfield, N.J.; mixed woods Angora and Kingsessing, Philadelphia.

Perhaps constancy to C. cibarius has influenced the writer in favor of members of its family, and accounts for the gusto in “Fine” set opposite his notes to the present species. Nevertheless such is his opinion.

** Stem tubular.

C. flocco´sus Schw.—woolly. (Plate [XLVI], fig. 1, p. 214.) Pileus fleshy, elongated funnel-form or trumpet shape, floccose-squamose, ochraceous-yellow. Gills vein-like, close, much anastomosing above, long decurrent and subparallel below, concolorous. Stem very short, thick, rarely deeply rooting.

Height 2–4 in., breadth of Pileus at the top 1–3 in.

Woods and their borders. Not rare. Utica, Johnson. Albany and Sandlake. July and August. Peck, 23d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.

Spores 12.5–15×7.6µ Peck.