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

Eaten generally in Europe. In France it is called pied de coq.

Plentiful in United States, in mixed woods. June to frost.

The writer and his friends have eaten it for fifteen years, and know of no Clavaria equalling it.

C. tetrago´na Schw.—Four-angled. Very fragile, deep orange-yellow, twice forked. Stem and branches quadrangular, 1–1½ in. tall.

Moist shady places.

New York. Ground in shaded places. August and September. Poughkeepsie, Gerard, Peck, 24th Rep.; North Carolina, Schweinitz, Curtis; Pennsylvania, Schweinitz.

Edible. Curtis.

Photographed by Dr. J.R. Weist. Plate CXLI.
CLAVARIA CRISTATA.

C. crista´ta Pers.—crista, a crest. (Plate [CXLI], p. 518.) Height 1–5 in., whitish, tufts of broad flattened branches cut on margins or crested. Base short, stout. Branches numerous, irregular, flattened upward and divided like moose horns, tough, stuffed, dingy. This peculiarity distinguishes it and separates it from C. coralloides.