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

Haddonfield, N.J.; Mt. Gretna, Pa. On pastures, lawns, etc. June to September. McIlvaine.

Not previously reported.

Though small it makes up in quantity when found. The stems are not as tender as the caps. Quality good.

BOLBITIUS Fr.

Gr—cow’s dung.

Pileus membranaceous. Gills adnexed or free, membranaceous, soft, salmon-color or rusty, dissolving (not dripping as in Coprinus), powdered with the rusty spores. Stem central; universal veil absent, partial veil often obsolete.

Very delicate and fragile, remarkable among the Ochrosporæ for the gills dissolving into mucus, and in this respect analogous with Coprinus among the Melanosporæ, and Hiatula amongst the Leucosporæ. Growing on dung or amongst grass where dung abounds.

A small but very natural genus, with the vegetative portion like Coprinus and the fructification resembling Cortinarius, hence occupying an intermediate position between these two genera. Fries.

B. Bol´toni Fr.—after Bolton. Pileus rather fleshy, viscid, at first even, then with the membranaceous margin sulcate, disk darker, subdepressed. Stem attenuated, yellowish, at first floccose from the remains of the fugacious veil. Gills subadnate, yellow then livid-brown. Fries.