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

Merisma (Gr—to divide). Page [501].

Very much branched or of an irregular form without a distinct margin.

Apus (Gr—without; a foot). Page [503].

Stemless, dimidiate, margin distinct.

Resupinati (resupino, to throw on the back).

Without stem or distinct pileus.

None known to be edible.

Mes´opus. Gr—middle; a foot.

(Entire, simple, stem central. On the ground, mostly in pine woods.)

H. imbrica´tum L.—imbrex, a tile. Pileus about 2–5 in. broad, umber, zoneless, fleshy, rather plane, somewhat umbilicate, floccose, tessulato-scaly. Flesh dingy whitish. Stem curt, 1–3 in. long, 1–2 in. thick, even. Spines 4–6 lines long, decurrent, ashy-white.