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

Var. fuligin´eus. Pileus fuliginous or cinereous-fuliginous.

Var. fus´cus. Pileus brown or dark-brown.

Var. oliva´ceus. Pileus olivaceous.

Var. ni´veus. Pileus white, when old sometimes stained with blue or livid-blue.

To these might be added:

Var. areola´tus. Pileus rimose-areolate. (Plate [CXVIII], fig. 4, p. 436.)

Var. mutab´ilis. Flesh changing slightly to brown or pinkish where wounded.

Var. graci´lipes. Stem very slender, 2–3 in. long, 2–3 lines thick. Pileus thin, translucent when held toward the light.

This Boletus is classed among the edible species, but it is said to be less agreeable than B. edulis. Peck, Boleti of the U.S.

West Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, McIlvaine.