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

Distinguished from other coriaceous genera by its serrated and torn gills.

“The genera Lentinus and Lenzites are found in every region of the world; their principal center, however, is in hot countries, where they attain a splendid development. On the contrary, toward the north they rapidly decrease in number.” Fungi. Cooke and Berkeley.

In habitat and mode of growth Lentinus closely resembles Pleurotus, and parallel genera with colored spores. When young the species are inviting, and when well cooked are meal-giving. They are not delicacies, but substantials. They dry well. Grated they make soups, and give their pleasant flavor to any dish.

ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

Mesopodes (mesos, middle; pous, a foot). Page [229].

Stem distinct.

Pleuroti (pleura, a side; ous, an ear).

Stem lateral or absent. None known to be edible

I.—Meso´podes (center-stemmed).

L. Lecom´tei Fr. Pileus coriaceous, funnel-shaped, regularly reflexed, hairy, tawny. Gills crowded, pallid. Stem short, hairy, tawny.