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

There are several edible species in the family. They are good in soups, giving them flavor and body, and some are excellent when stewed.

SYNOPSIS OF GENERA.

Sub-Family—Auricularieæ. Page [528].

Auricularia.

Broadly attached, margin free and reflexed. (No edible species reported.)

Hirneola. Page [528].

Cartilaginous, ear-shaped, attached by a point.

Sub-Family—Tremellineæ. Page [529].

Exidia.

Cup-shaped, truncate, or irregularly lobed; spores reniform, producing curved sporidiola on germination. (No edible species reported.)