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

West Virginia. Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia. McIlvaine.

Specimens found at Mt. Gretna, Pa., had a satiny, glossy stem, beautifully furfuraceous, and stem not thickened at base. Professor Peck, to whom specimens were sent, writes: “Stem is a little more furfuraceous, and not thickened at the base, otherwise the agreement is very good.” It is good fried.

B. chro´mapes Frost. Pileus convex or nearly plane, slightly and sometimes fasciculately tomentose, pale-red. Flesh white, unchangeable. Tubes subadnate, more or less depressed around the stem, white or whitish, becoming brown. Stem equal or slightly tapering upward, rough-spotted, whitish or pallid, chrome-yellow at the base both without and within, sometimes reddish above. Spores oblong, 12–14×4–5µ.

Pileus 2–4 in. broad. Stem 2–4 in. long, 4–6 lines thick.

Woods. New England, Frost; New York, Peck.

The yellow base of the stem appears to be a peculiar and constant character by which the species may easily be recognized. It imitates Boletus piperatus in this respect, but in everything else it is very distinct from that plant. Sometimes the stem is so badly infested by larvæ that it is difficult to procure a sound specimen. The spores have a subferruginous color with a slight incarnate tint, but the rough-dotted stem indicates a relationship with B. scaber. Through this species, Boletus conicus and B. gracilis, the Versipelles and the Hyporhodii appear to run together. In the Catalogue of Plants of Amherst the specific name is “chromapus.” It would be more in accordance with present custom to write it “chromopus.” Peck, Boleti of the U.S.

A dozen or more specimens referable to this species were found by me at Mt. Gretna, Pa., August, 1897, in mixed woods. The caps were eaten and were excellent.

B. nebulo´sus Pk. Pileus convex, dry, snuff-brown or smoky-brown. Flesh white, unchangeable. Tubes convex, depressed around the stem, pallid or brownish, becoming purplish-brown where wounded, the mouths small, rotund. Stem enlarged toward the base, solid, scurfy, colored like the pileus. Spores 12.5–15×6µ.

Pileus 2–4 in. broad. Stem 3–4 in. long, 4–6 lines thick.

Shaded banks by road-side. Raybrook. August.