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

III.—Merisma. (Gr—to divide.) Page [482].

Divided into numerous pileoli, borne on a simple or much-branched stem, or a short, thick tubercle.

IV.—Apus. (Gr—without; a foot.) Page [488].

Stem wanting; pileus attached by the side or spread on the matrix.

V.—Resupinati. (Lying on the back.) Page [489].

The pores being placed directly upon the wood or on the mycelium, the pileus proper is absent.

I.—Me´sopus.

P. ovi´nus Schaeff.—relating to sheep. Pileus 2–4 in. broad, fleshy, thick, fragile, irregular in shape, becoming scaly, whitish. Stem short, thick, 1 in. or more in length, white. Pores minute, equal, round, white then citron-color.

On the ground. Autumn.

North Carolina, Curtis; Massachusetts, Frost; Ohio, Morgan; New York, ground in pine woods. Bethlehem. September, Peck, 22d Rep.