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

In pastures and grassy places, during warm months.

North Carolina, Curtis; California, West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, McIlvaine.

Commonly eaten throughout Europe. In Germany they call it Ziegenbart—goat’s beard.

This is one of the species that has to be looked for. Grass tufts hide it. Its yellowish stools are not unlike them in color. It is freely found, and, though not of the best, well rewards the seeker.

Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C. McIlvaine Plate CXXXIX.

Fig.	Page.	Fig.	Page.
1. Clavaria amethystina,	[516]	3. Clavaria formosa,	[520]
2. Clavaria aurea,	[520]

C. muscoi´des—muscus, moss. Height 1–1½ in., slightly tufted, yellow. Stem slender, tomentose at base, becoming two or three times forked. Branchlets thin, tapering, crescent-shaped, acute.

Spores white, subglobose, 5–6µ Massee.

In pastures.