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

But one specimen found and that was sent to Professor Peck. Taste bitter.

Regarded as poisonous by European writers. It is not reported as tested in America.

FLAM´MULA Fr.

Flamma, a flame.

(In reference to the bright colors of many of the species.)

Pileus fleshy, margin at first turned inward. Veil fibrillose or none. Stem fleshy-fibrous, not mealy at the top. Gills decurrent or attached without a tooth. Spores mostly pure rust color; some brownish-rust, others tawny-ochraceous.

A few species grow on the ground, the majority on wood.

ANALYSIS OF TRIBES.

Gymnoti (naked). Page [288].