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

There are many edible species of good quality in the series. None are known to be poisonous. The substance, as a rule, is tougher than in most of the preceding genera, and in many instances has a strong woody flavor. Several species are late growers, and are among the best of fungi. Notably in Pholiota.

ACETABULA´RIA Berk.

Acetabulum, a vinegar-cup. From the cup-like volva.

Universal veil distinct from the pileus; hymenophore distinct; gills free; spores pallid, tawny or brown.

Analogous to Volvaria and Chitonia.

No American species reported.

PHOLIO´TA Fr.

Gr—a scale.

Pileus more or less fleshy. Gills adnate, with or without a decurrent tooth, tawny or rust colored at maturity from the spores. Flesh of stem continuous with that of the pileus. Ring distinct, interwoven. Spores sepia-brown, bright yellowish-brown or light red.