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

Pileus granular or warty. Universal veil sheathing the stem, at first continuous from the stem to the pileus, finally rupturing, forming a ring nearer the base. Stem not so distinctly different from the pileus as in other sections.

Mesomorphi (L. mesomorpha).

Small, slender, stem hollow. Pileus smooth, dry.

B. Pileus Viscid. Neither Scaly Nor Warty.

Photographed by Dr. J.R. Weist. Plate XIII.
LEPIOTA PROCERA.

A. Pileus Dry.

Proce´ri. Ring movable, etc.

L. proce´ra Scop.—procerus, tall. (Plate [XIII], p. 34.) Tall Lepiota, Parasol Mushroom, in some localities Pasture Mushroom (a misleading title).