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

Plate XCII.
Chart of genera in purple-spored series—Porphyrosporae, Page [330].

(Plate XCIII.)

Chitonia rubriceps.
Two-thirds natural size.

It is frequently difficult to determine by the spore-color of this series even to which series a specimen belongs. Many of our best edibles belong in this series. I know of none noxious.

CHITON´IA Fr.

Universal veil distinct from the pileus, at maturity forming a distinct volva round the base of the ringless central stem. Gills free from the stem. Spores brownish-purple.

Analogous in structure with Volvaria and Amanitopsis. An exotic genus imported into this country.

No American species reported.