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. cris´pus—crispus, curled. (Plate [CXXXVI], fig. 7, p. 508.) Margin of hymenium sinuous and crisped. Pileus pervious. Stem stuffed at base only. Hymenium almost even. Massee.

Solitary and cespitose in mixed woods.

Found by Dr. S.C. Schmucker near West Chester, Pa., 1896; Wm. H. Rorer, Mt. Gretna, Pa., August, 1897.

Cap varies in color from dark to light brownish-gray. Gills brownish-gray, almost even. Stem hollow, dark yellow. Smell strong, musky, much like A. silvicola.

Substance tender and of markedly high and pleasant flavor.

FAMILY V.—CLAVARIA´CEÆ.

Hymenium not distinct from the hymenophore, covering entire outer surface. Somewhat fleshy, not coriaceous, vertical, simple or branched. Fries.

For the most part growing upon the ground.

In this family there is no separation into stem and pileus, with the spore-bearing surface restricted to gills or tubes, but the substance of the plant is continuous, and the spores are produced on the clubs or branches.