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

Spores 8×5µ.

It is certainly a wholesome, esculent species, but a great number would be required to make a good dish. M.C. Cooke.

Catalogued by Rev. M.A. Curtis, North Carolina, as edible.

Eaten in Italy. Inodorous, edible and agreeable. Cordier. More than fair. I have often eaten it. R.K. Macadam.

PAXIL´LUS Fr.

Paxillus, a small stake.

Hymenophore continuous with the stem, decurrent. Gills membranaceous, somewhat branched, frequently anastomosing behind, distinct from the hymenophore and easily separable from it. Spores dingy-white or ferruginous.

Fleshy putrescent fungi, margin of pileus at first involute, then continually and gradually unfolding and expanding. Fries.

Pileus symmetrical or eccentric. Stem central, eccentric or wanting. Edge of gills entire, sharp.