Indiana, H.I. Miller. Base of living trees. Woodland Cemetery, West Philadelphia, Pa., Mt. Gretna, Pa., West Virginia, New Jersey. Large tufts growing from oak roots in ground and at base of oak trees. McIlvaine.
Edible. Stevenson. Paulet says: In place of its being heavy upon the stomach, he will feel all the lighter who sups upon it.
The people of the Vosges call it the Hen-of-the-Woods.
The words of the old song—
“So very much depends upon
The way in which it’s done,”
apply with exceptional force to the cooking of P. intybaceus. If it is cut in thin slices across the grain and slowly stewed for half an hour it will be tender and of good flavor. It can then be served in that way, or made into patties or croquettes.
P. crista´tus Fr.—crista, a crest. Branched, firmly fleshy, fragile. Pileoli about 3 in. broad, reddish-green, entire and dimidiate, imbricated, depressed, somewhat pulverulent-villous, then cracked into scales. Stems connate, irregularly shaped, white. Pores minute, angular and torn, whitish. Fries.
Very changeable in form, sometimes simple with an undulato-lobed, central pileus.
Edible. Curtis.