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

But three genera—Clavaria, Sparassis and Pistillaria—include species of food value. They are easily recognized.

The genus Calcocera resembles Clavaria in form, but is very different in material, being a jelly-like viscid, cartilaginous substance, horny when dry, resembling that of Tremella.

SYNOPSIS OF GENERA.

Sparassis. Page [512].

Very much branched, branches compressed, plate-like, crisped.

Typhula.

Simple or club-shaped, with a thread-like stem.

Clavaria. Page [513].

Fleshy, simple or branched, branches typically round, some forms club-shaped.

Pistillaria.